[SCM-368] Windows path length limitations can be overcome by feeding an absolute path to SVN

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Component/s: maven-scm-api
• Environment: Any Windows machine
• Assignee: Emmanuel Venisse
• Reporter: Kurt Tometich
• Created: 21/Feb/08 11:54
• Updated: 06/Jun/10 10:03
• Resolved: 23/May/08 15:50

Description

When calling Subversion with relative paths there is a limit of 255 characters to the path length. If you call Subversion with an absolute path that no longer applies and you now have access to 32K chars. I have tried this myself and it does work. Try feeding SVN a path that is relative and is over 255 chars. It will not be able to complete the transaction. Now, try to the same path again only as an absolute path and it will successfully complete the transaction. Here is a link to the forum where I found this information: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.4/firstrun/.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SCM-371 problem with long path on windows OS
• is related to: SCM-409 Windows path length limitations can be overcome by feeding an absolute path to SVN (checkout command)
• is related to: SCM-555 paths reported in svn-exe checkout do not match update command (always reports absolute)
• relates to: SCM-481 cygwin SVN does not understand the target file generated by SvnCommandLineUtils.addTarget()