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
> >
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> Wolf
> >
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>
> Thanks!
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