Long pathnames

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 20.07.2008 09:19, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I just ran into the long pathsnames problem unter GNU/Linux. 
> 
> I downloaded some dynamically created webcontent (wget -m ) and the length 
> went above the limit. 

What limit are you talking about?

What exactly did you do and at which step did you fail?

> You may now say "why should you want to versioncontrol that", but the reasons 
> are mine. 
> 
> Important is: I want to use Mercurial for it, and I can't. 
> 
> Could we gather ways to fix it? 

I'm confused about your statement, because I thought Linux
doesn't have a path length limit (besides the disk capacity)?

Windows Explorer and most others Windows tools can't handle
path lengths longer than 260 chars.

I'm currently working on an improved version of
http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2008-July/007158.html
which builds on previously presented ideas and patches that
were published by others (including but not limited to Matt, Jesse,
Patrick and Peter).