In the past when I had issues with "the file name is too long", it was a Windows operating system limitation, not a Jenkins limitation.
Our work around was to place the Jenkins home directory in the C:\J directory. You might save one more letter by using "SUBST" to define a drive J:\ and place the Jenkins home directory in that location. http://joe-re.blogspot.com/2012/09/jenkins-file-name-too-long.html offers another alternative Mark Waite >________________________________ > From: Jason Zhang <qzhja...@gmail.com> >To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:04 PM >Subject: Jenkins failed to sync from Perforce due to long file name > > >Hi, > >We're running one Jenkins 1.498 instance on Windows 7 and got the error "The >file name is too long." on some files due to the complexity of our project >structures. We can't change the project structures. I just wonder if there >is any JVM option to handle this? > >Thanks. >Jason > > >
