Update fails with long file name

[Aaron Cohen]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Aaron Cohen <aaron at assonance.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Benjamin Fritz <fritzophrenic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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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>> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Win32LongFileNamesExtension
>

 Actually, sorry that was so brief.

Please let me know where I failed in search terms that could have helped
you to google for this better.

Let me know if it works for you, most people seem to be having pretty good
luck these days.

--Aaron
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