Hi Guys,
I am using TortiseSVN and we have a problem when we exporting etc because subversion errors. The path has a character limit 255 - so I am not sure if this is the problem [I think it is in Win7 x-64 bit]
How do I fix this ? i.e. allow paths for >255 characters ?
It's a Windows limitation, not a tortoise limitation.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065993/has-windows-7-fixed-the-255-character-file-path-limit
Subversion works quite well with paths longer than MAX_PATH (256 chars), but you must provide absolute paths for every command, not relative ones. TortoiseSVN already does this, but there's another limitation: the Windows Explorer can not deal with such long paths, even though NTFS can. So you can checkout/update/commit in TortoiseSVN such paths, but you can't access those anymore in Explorer.
To 'shorten' such paths, you can use the SUBST command.