Windows long path experimenting report

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> [...]
> root paths for the store\data on Windows like the 82 chars of
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\adi\My Documents\hg-repos\tortoisehg-crew\.hg\store\data
>
> are admittedly a bit silly when using Mercurial (better use an extra drive
> letter for the repos-dir) but probably still quite common.

The remapping helps as long as you only access the repo through the
mapped drive, no? But I can easily imagine someone copying a repo from
within the My Documents folder in Explorer instead of through the
mapping.

And your user name is conveniently short (no domain, for instance).

>
> 82 + 200 would already exceed the 260 magic barrier of Windows
>
> 110 for the root path and then 150 available until 260 is hit looks
> reasonable.

So I'd say 110 is a minimum for the root path. I'd feel better with a
value that's a little higher. I'm still with 130.

> [...]