Example - winzip only supports 250 bytes in filenames: http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/99/
Which suggests (because of the zip format) that fossil zip also has such a limit, in which case display of such names in one particular view is the least of the problems such names cause. ----- stephan (Sent from a mobile device, possibly from bed. Please excuse brevity, typos, and top-posting.) On Mar 22, 2015 12:59 PM, "Stephan Beal" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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