> -----Original Message----- > From: David Huang [mailto:k...@azeotrope.org] > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:29 PM > To: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) > Cc: users@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.
