Windows people: please help check idea for a new Mercurial repository layout

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 14.06.2008 17:05, Matt Mackall wrote:
> As I've mentioned before, it *is* possible to create both very long path
> names *and* files with reserved filenames on Windows by using the
> Unicode APIs. And that doesn't even require a layout change.

It is possible, but the shell can't handle such path names,
which makes Mercurial on Windows XP pretty much unusable.

I urge you not to use the Unicode APIs to create paths
that the shell can't handle.