KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 16:31:04 -0800: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name] > > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:20 PM > > To: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) > > Cc: David Huang; users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: Re: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file > > > > KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote on Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 14:18:12 -0800: > > > > -----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. > > > > IIRC, it's use absolute paths instead of relative paths. > > I'm not sure what you mean. You're saying that Subversive in Eclipse is > referencing absolute paths, but using the command line client is using > relative paths? Assuming that's the distinction, is there some way I > could use the command-line client in a different way that might avoid > this problem?
Pass absolute paths to the cmdline client when you invoke it :) (svn 1.7 will use absolute paths internally)
