Not unsolvable, of course, but imho not fossil's problem. Such names cause grief for many tools.
----- stephan (Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity, typos, and top-posting.) On Mar 22, 2015 2:07 AM, "jungle Boogie" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 March 2015 at 15:45, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:58 PM, jungle Boogie <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> I'm really hoping its a rare case where a file name is this long: > >> > >> > SWIGTYPE_p_f_p_switch_core_session_p_switch_event_p_switch_caller_profile_p_p_switch_core_session_p_p_apr_pool_t_enum_switch_originate_flag_t__switch_call_cause_t.cs > > > > > > Fossil is not the only tool which will have problems with such > > auto-generated names. i have seen generated Java class names so long that > > they literally cannot be used on encrypted filesystems because the > encrypted > > names are larger than the unencrypted names, and too long for the > filesystem > > driver. > > > > Oh very interesting and thanks for the examples. > > Does this mean its an unsolvable problem? Sha1 hashes are truncated at > a user defined value so I was thinking file names could be truncated > (although I don't know what the value should be). The report list > allows you to click the file name so you'd be able to see the full > file. Then on that page, the extraordinary long file name won't wrap > and you'll have the same problem anyway. > > My above mentioned file has only two commits so its unfortunate that > such a nice report is ruined by a hardly changed file. > > > Some examples: > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime/+bug/1359776 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/344878 > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8239227/is-there-a-workaround-for-the-filename-length-limit-in-encfs > > > > -- > > ----- stephan beal > > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby > Wolf > > > = > > Thanks! > > -- > ------- > inum: 883510009027723 > sip: [email protected] > xmpp: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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