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RE: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file

From: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) <dk068x_at_att.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:18:12 -0800

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Huang [mailto:khym_at_azeotrope.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:29 PM
> To: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI)
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 2:19 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote:
> > I then looked at the full local path this file would represent, and
> the entire path is 260 characters long. I would think if there's any
> threshold, it would be at 255, not 259.
> >
> > Any idea what's going on here?
>
> The usual maximum path length limit on Windows is indeed 259 (or 260
if
> you count the terminating NUL): See the "Maximum Path Length
> Limitation" section of http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Hmm, then Eclipse/Subversion must be doing something special to avoid
this problem. My resulting paths in my existing projects checked out in
Eclipse are quite a bit longer than 259 characters.
Received on 2011-01-14 23:19:04 CET

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