long path names on windows prefixed with \\?\ not handled by svn commands

Hello,

running svn client commands other than svn checkout on windows fail,
if the path name (of the local working copy location) is prefixed
with \\?\.
The prefix is required for path names longer than 255 or so.

It seems that svn commands like svn info or svn status behave different
than svn checkout command regarding the path name prefix.

example:

svn info \\?\c:\long\path\name
svn: '\' is not a working copy

Any thoughts?

(I am using svn client version 1.6.11 from CollabNet)

Thanks,
Heinz
Received on 2010-05-11 14:30:13 CEST