Re: Abandoning darcs

On 31.03.2009 09:59, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 09:46:27AM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
>    
>>> A path in NTFS is not allowed to be longer than 255 chars...
>>>        
>> Path? You mean file name? It's the same on ext2/3 as far as I
>> recall,
>>      
>
> Just tried it out of curiosity, I got bored after about 6000
> characters.
>    
Yes, it is possible to _create_ such file names, but you can't use 
them.  Here at WinXP I can create (best under "Desktop") dirs close to 
255 chars.
But if you try to put files into them, it won't work.  You can also put 
files in dirs <255 chars and then rename some of the dirs so that the 
full file name is
longer than 255 chars.  Then they become unusable: no icons, no clicks, 
nothing...

bye, Adam.