Re: [Gnu-arch-users] further tla/win32 progress

[Alejandro Mery]

Parker, Ron wrote:

> > From: Alejandro Mery [mailto:address@hidden
>
>
> > Johannes Berg wrote:
>
>
> > > Thats because the tree is so deep. You could try ROS 
> > > Explorer and see what happens with that.
> >
> > it couldn't :(
> > i moved the tree to a junk folder and forget about it.
> > it screams 'file not found' when i try to enter or delete some 
> > directories inside ++pristine.
> > just because i'm curious, is it using some weird ntfs internals which 
> > can make unsafe to delete stuff?
>
>
> It is not unsafe to delete it.  Rather, I believe it uses the magic filename
> syntax that bypasses the Win32 Object Manager Namespace manipulation,
> allowing it to create directories that list out deeper than Win32 260
> character limit.  The trick I have found for deleting them is to go as deep
> into the tree as possible, without Explorer crashing, then move that
> directory to the root of the given drive.  Once it is there you should be
> able to delete that portion and then go back and delete the non-deep
> remainder.
>
> Of course, the trick here is you only know you've gone too deep when
> Explorer crashes.

both tips are good :) thanks.

now i have a 'tiny' but important difficulty. the paste can talk by itself.

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* committed 
address@hidden/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0--patch-1

D:\{projects}\socomep\floppy-caja>tla changes
* looking for 
address@hidden/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0--patch-1 to 
compare with
* auto-adding 
address@hidden/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0--patch-1 to 
greedy revision library d:/{revision-library}
* found immediate ancestor revision in library 
(address@hidden/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0--base-0)
Error calling `vu_link' to link 
"d:/{revision-library}/address@hidden/floppy-nbt-caja/floppy-nbt-caja--devel/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0/,,new-revision.1082063904.3180.1/{arch}/floppy-nbt-caja/floppy-nbt-caja--devel/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0/address@hidden/patch-log/base-0" 
to 
"d:/{revision-library}/address@hidden/floppy-nbt-caja/floppy-nbt-caja--devel/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0--base-0/{arch}/floppy-nbt-caja/floppy-nbt-caja--devel/floppy-nbt-caja--devel--0/address@hidden/patch-log/base-0" 
(El sistema no puede hallar la ruta especificada.)
PANIC: I/O error
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"El sistema no puede hallar la ruta especificada." means "The system 
couldn't find the specified path".

to link "a" to "b", _a_ is 279 chars and _b_ is 280. i think i'll have 
to rename my project :p

well... i'll be back.
Alejandro Mery