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

Tom Widmer tom.widmer at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 16 06:06:00 CDT 2008


Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 15.06.2008 17:42, Matt Mackall wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 10:48 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>> [deleted mostly unread]
>>
>> Adrian, chill. I haven't made any sort of decision on what the solution
>> is. I've merely suggested that \\?\ is worth considering. In particular
>> it might be a good quick hack for people who need something that works
>> today.
> 
> It's not even that. A simple good quick hack would be to prepend a dot
> to every path component and use an additional requires entry.
> So Windows folks could get along with Issue793.

How about using \\?\ to get around the long filename problem, but 
additionally encoding reserved names with a .? That way, only repos with 
extra long pathnames will have problems in explorer, but such repos will 
at least work if you stick to hg commands.

Tom



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