I agree its a limitation of the file system; however, if Continuum would feed Subversion an absolute path (when running svn commands) as opposed to a relative path then their would not be a 256 character limit. I tried this and it does work when I send Subversion an absolute path and it fails when I send it a relative path. I found an article about it online here: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-02/1088.shtml. This shouldn't be a hard change to make and would allow Windows users to not have to worry about running into this problem.
Kurt > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:48:08 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: continuum-users@maven.apache.org > Subject: Re: Windows path length limitation > > its a limitation of the file system...not a lot we can do about it :( > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:33 PM, KURT TOMETICH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the quick response. That was my fall-back option, but I wasn't > > sure if there was just an easy way to configure it to use an absolute path. > > Shortening the root path length should help, but its still possible to > > reach the limit. > > > > Kurt > > > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:19:23 +0100 > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: continuum-users@maven.apache.org > > > Subject: Re: Windows path length limitation > > > > > > Try to configure Build Output Directory and Working Directory to > > > c:\\bd and c:\\wd > > > Go to the configuration entry of the administration menu [1] > > > -- > > > Olivier > > > > > > [1] > > http://maven.apache.org/continuum/docs/1.1/administrator_guides/configuration.html > > > > > > 2008/2/19, KURT TOMETICH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > Is there a way to configure Continuum to checkout project from > > Subversion using an absolute path instead of a relative path? This would > > solve the path limitation issue on Windows. I ran into the problem where > > the path was too long and was able to verify that if I checked out the > > project using an absolute path it worked fine. Is this something I can > > configure on and end user system or does the project have to be recompiled > > to make this change? > > > > > > > > Kurt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > jesse mcconnell > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
