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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Huijben [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: zondag 29 maart 2015 17:50
> To: 'Stephen White'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Subversion checkout issue with certain short names on Windows
>
> It looks like a bug, but not one that we can fix in Subversion. We use the apr
> library for all our path calculations. I'm guessing that this problem occurs
> in the
> APR truename implementation, as after that the code to convert back from
> absolute paths back to shortnames would be affected
>
> What do you see if you just type 'svn info API~1.IMP' for that directory. (I
> don't
> think this is in any way specific to checkout)
>
>
> The obvious workaround is of course to just use the full name instead of the
> short name.
>
>
> Interesting followup questions would be what version of Subversion and what
> version of apr you are using. Perhaps this issue was already fixed.
I've identified the bug in apr and posted a patch to the apr development list
to fix the problem. See the ' [Patch] apr_file_path_merge returns incorrect
truepath on certain 'short paths' on Windows' thread.
I hope they'll fix the problem in the next release... but I've posted multiple
patches over the last year (affecting Subversion) and some of them haven't been
applied yet.
Bert
