> -----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?
