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.
