On 15.06.2015 14:16, Bert Huijben wrote: > For the mailinglist archive: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bert Huijben [mailto:b...@qqmail.nl] >> Sent: zondag 29 maart 2015 17:50 >> To: 'Stephen White'; dev@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Subversion checkout issue with certain short names on Windows >> >> It looks like a bug, but not one that we can fix in Subversion. We use the >> apr >> library for all our path calculations. I'm guessing that this problem occurs >> in the >> APR truename implementation, as after that the code to convert back from >> absolute paths back to shortnames would be affected >> >> What do you see if you just type 'svn info API~1.IMP' for that directory. (I >> don't >> think this is in any way specific to checkout) >> >> >> The obvious workaround is of course to just use the full name instead of the >> short name. >> >> >> Interesting followup questions would be what version of Subversion and what >> version of apr you are using. Perhaps this issue was already fixed. > I've identified the bug in apr and posted a patch to the apr development list > to fix the problem. See the ' [Patch] apr_file_path_merge returns incorrect > truepath on certain 'short paths' on Windows' thread. > > I hope they'll fix the problem in the next release... but I've posted > multiple patches over the last year (affecting Subversion) and some of them > haven't been applied yet.
Some of that is my fail, too. I know I've promised both you and Ivan to get some patches into APR, and ... well, it hasn't happened. It would help if we had a list of pending patches. -- Brane
