Re: Workaround for 260 char limitation?

[email protected] Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:38:14 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.windows-nt.user
Message-ID <OFC80DC0F4.D83CE5E5-ON85257665.00553990-85257665.0055E616@aep.com>
[email protected] wrote on 11/05/2009 10:28:36 AM:

> Hi!
> Is there a workaround to avoid
> 
http://customer.march-hare.com/webtools/bugzilla/ttshow_bug.cgi?tt=1&id=5629
> when trying to "cvs update" a project that has path-names longer than 
260
> chars?

Nope.  This is due to Microsoft's implementation of the NTFS filesystem 
(remember how we'd never need more than 640K of memory?)and is built into
the filesystem (Microsoft's limit is actually 254 character from drive 
designator to last character of file extension). 

You don't mention your server/client setup as that would determine the 
impact
to your environment.

Paul Feeny

 
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