Cannot branch on Windows due to file path length - can I do anything?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:


|> | Thanks for the informative reply - I realize this is not Bazaar's
|> fault.
|> | It would be nice if it could support this and I would be interested in
|> | helping but I'm always busy (as usual ;-( ) and doubt I would get much
|> | chance to look at this...
|> |
|> | Cheers
|> |
|> | Nick
|>
|> I did go ahead and register a blueprint for it here:
|> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+spec/long-win32-paths
|>
|> But I don't know if anyone will pick it up for a while. I figured I
|> can at least
|> jot down some of the ideas about it, so that people can think about it.
|
| Last time I talked about this topic in 2006 someone (may be it was John
| Meinel)
| said this is dead-end way.
|

Well, at the time Explorer didn't support long paths, so it seemed foolish to
use them. I just checked on Vista, though, and I could browse to the deep paths.
So while not all apps will work with it, I suppose there is some support showing up.

I'm not planning on doing the work, but I would certainly review and possibly
approve a patch which did it in a clean way.

John
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