RE: svn command line client 1.8.8 - Error: file name or extension is too long

> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:29:37AM +0200,
> Milan_Plancik_at_swissre.com wrote:
> > Dear team,
> >
> > I tried to commit my changes with following error message:
> >
> > Error:Cannot run program
> "C:\srdev\tool\SVN_CLIENT_1.8.8\svn.exe" (in
> > directory
> >
> "C:\Users\S3F96Q\work\sources\g10ct\SR_G10_CT\modules\sr-g10-c
> t-batch-xd\src\main\resources"):
> > CreateProcess error=206, The filename or extension is too long
> >
> > This file in its path is far away from the longest name in
> project and
> > I only changed the content of its file (did not changed the path or
> > file name). This error prevents me to commit my changes. I
> also tried
> > to checkout it from scratch, so that path changed to:
> >
> C:\work\sources\g10ct\SR_G10_CT\modules\sr-g10-ct-batch-xd\src\main\re
> > sources,
> > but id did not help.
> >
> > Then I tried to commit changes in chunks (I did not change
> any path or
> > file name), which finally worked. I had 285 files to commit.
> >
> > 1. Is it bug? At least message does not correspond to real error 2.
> > Can it be configurable (the max file count to commit or
> some buffer)?
> > (How?)
> > 3. Is it fixed in some newer version?
> >
> > Thank you
> > With regards
> >
> > Milan Plancik
>
> IIRC this is a limitation of windows.

Yes, there is such a limitation of Windows. I've encountered it before in other applications. There's a known issue with paths over 260 characters long, INCLUDING the drive letter, the colon AND the terminating NUL. See this MSDN article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath

If you prepend the string '\\?\' to the path, it's meant to allow 32,767 Unicode characters of path name. We've found, however, that some languages (such as National Instruments' LabVIEW up to version 8.6 at least) don't allow this.

There are two approaches available in this case:
1) Shorten your path names.
2) Use the DOS subst command to create a new virtual drive starting at an appropriate place in the tree (preferably the directory where the .svn directory resides). It would be something like "SUBST Z: C:\work\sources\g10ct" When you're done, you can then do "SUBST Z: /D" to delete it.

However, please note that Milan finally mannaged to commit all the files by doing them in smaller batches. That would seem to indicate some other issue.

> Passing absolute paths on the command line should work around it.

Probably not, given what I've just discussed.
 
> BTW, please try to avoid posting disclaimers like the one
> below to public mailing list. See
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Some of us are subject to the whims and caprices of a corporate IT department (and their bosses). I know I am. We can't avoid the disclaimers if we're using our work emails.

Regards,

Geoff

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