KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 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.
IIRC, it's use absolute paths instead of relative paths.
Received on 2011-01-15 01:24:14 CET