Long filename issues with SVN 1.8.13 on Windows 7

Hi,

I'm having a problem with Subversion 1.8.13's svnversion utility.

We have a build script here which takes the project checkout path, converts it to the DOS-style path (e.g. if you pass in C:\Program Files, you get C:\PROGRA~1 out) to prevent issues with long filenames later on, and then uses svn's svnversion utility to find out what the current rev is. This is then poked into a C source file which is then compiled and linked into our binary.

The problem is, svnversion doesn't seem to like it when you have a directory whose "long" filename is actually shorter than its 8.3 path. For instance, when we did a checkout of our "V0.9.22" tag into C:\V0.9.22:
C:\Users\...>svnversion C:\V0.9.22
8943M
C:\Users\...>svnversion C:\V09~1.22
'C:\V0.9.222' doesn't exist
Rev numbers and usernames have been changed to protect the innocent, but you get the idea.

"svn info", on the other hand, seems to work fine with either path. It's only "svnversion" which seems to have problems.

Am I doing something silly or have I just stumbled across a fairly subtle SVN bug?

Thanks,

Philip Pemberton
Software Development Engineer
IMI Precision Engineering

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