Re: Problem with checkout on AMD64

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 09:12:36PM +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>> There's a fundamental difference in how the svn client and TSVN
>> operate: TSVN creates all its files with full paths. In that case, the
>> maximum length of a file name on windows is 65k bytes.
>>
>> The way the SVN client does it is different: it uses relative paths.
>> In that scenario the maximum file name length of the relative file
>> name on Windows is 256 bytes.
>>
>> Given the above, it could very well be you're looking at the Windows limitation.
>
> Why isn't the behaviour the same even though both clients use
> the svn libraries?

Because the libraries operate on whatever they're given. TSVN always
passes full paths, whereas the user probably doesn't.

Bye,

Erik.
Received on 2009-12-27 22:35:58 CET