Hi, We've experienced a problem with checkouts to long local absolute paths. I.e. we have a repository with test cases and one of those test cases have a veeery long name for regression test purposes. Now, checking out this file usually works without a hitch but last week we hit a snag.
Subversion told us about problems creating files under the .svn-tree. We did some fiddling with local and repository paths and found that the issue seems to be related to local paths becoming longer than 260-ish characters long. There's a windows limit somewhere around there and that's probably the root of the problem. It seems that the lengths of both the local WC path and the path in the repository are involved in this. We have two WAs for this: 1) Reduce the length of the path to the root of the wc or 2) Check out from deeper in the repository, e.g. change from ^/trunk/ to ^/trunk/testcases. Is this a known (and perhaps even documented) issue with the Subversion client? Do you want some sort of recipe to recreate the problem? Regards /Daniel Widenfalk
