Update fails with long file name

[Aaron Cohen]

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Win32LongFileNamesExtension

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Benjamin Fritz <fritzophrenic at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 16:18 -0500, Benjamin Fritz wrote:
> > > I'm not sure whether the problem is in Mercurial, or in hgsubversion,
> so
> > > please let me know if this is a bad place to report the issue.
> > >
> > > I cloned a SVN repository by creating a new (empty) hg repository, then
> > > enabling the hgsubversion extension, and doing "hg pull" with the URL
> of my
> > > SVN repository.
> > >
> > > I used TortoiseSVN for all of the above, so I don't have the exact
> command
> > > line.
> > >
> > > The pull worked fine but the update step failed as follows:
> > >
> > >
> E:\Project_Files\XXX-hg\Verification/XXX_config/Error_Config/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678.csv
> >
> > Programs that use the standard C interfaces have this limitation in
> > Windows (including cmd.exe and friends). Mercurial intentionally remains
> > in this set so that it doesn't create problematic files that not all
> > programs (such as del!) can handle.
> >
> > We'll fix this after Windows itself (including its core utilities)
> > finally gets its act together.
> >
>
> I'll take that as a "won't fix" then. Pity. I guess I'm stuck without
> Mercurial on yet another project :-(
>
> Unless of course there is some magical workaround, maybe in hgsubversion
> or some other extension.
>
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