[PATCH] enable long/reserved paths on Windows (EXPERIMENTAL)

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Tue Jun 24 17:59:00 CDT 2008


On 25.06.2008 00:53, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> * Some paths occur as relative to the working dir (os.getcwd). On
>   Windows, trying to have a working dir with a path longer than 260
>   seems to be a problem. Luckily, it seems that the relative cases
>   occurring are near or equal to the repo root and we can forget
>   about having the repo root outside the 260 barrier anyway.

...and we can also forget about having reserved names in the path
of the repo root.


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