On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 09:12:36PM +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote: > >> There's a fundamental difference in how the svn client and TSVN > >> operate: TSVN creates all its files with full paths. In that case, the > >> maximum length of a file name on windows is 65k bytes. > >> > >> The way the SVN client does it is different: it uses relative paths. > >> In that scenario the maximum file name length of the relative file > >> name on Windows is 256 bytes. > >> > >> Given the above, it could very well be you're looking at the Windows > limitation. > > > > Why isn't the behaviour the same even though both clients use > > the svn libraries? > > Because the libraries operate on whatever they're given. TSVN always > passes full paths, whereas the user probably doesn't. > > > Bye, > > Erik. > Since it looks like you're calling the SVN client from Ant, you can just have Ant normalize any relative path to a full path before passing it to the SVN client inside the <exec> task. See: <property name="absolute.path" location="relative/path"/> -Rob
