[p4] Mac OS X and long filenames

[Michael Bishop]

At 6:41 PM -0800 1/24/02, Karl Elvis MacRae wrote:
>I find this posted a while back, but I find no answer on
>the list

2001.1 introduced a bug that put the 31 char limit back in place.

2002.1 will fix that for both the Mac Classic clients and Mac OS X 
clients as it uses the FSRef APIs.

However, the directory scanning has not yet been updated so there is 
a limit on the length of directory names. Hopefully this won't be a 
problem, but if it is for your development, send something to 
support at perforce.com

_ michael



>One of my users just ran into this same problem.
>
>Has anyone heard anything from perforce about this? Is it actually
>a perforce bug? Or is it some issue with OS X or with
>the partition type or...
>
>Thanks-
>
>
>-Karl (kmac at apple.com)
>
>
>----- Forwarded message from Jon Witort <jon at witort.com> -----
>
>>  From: "Jon Witort" <jon at witort.com>
>>  To: <perforce-user at perforce.com>
>>  Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:55:42 -0700
>>  X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
>>  Subject: [p4] Mac OS X client doesn't appear to support long filenames...?
>>
>>  Despite the reassurance that the Mac OS X p4 client supports filenames
>>  longer than 31 characters:
>>
>>  http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note019.html
>>
>>  ... I find that this is not the case. I've tried it both on UFS and HFS+
>>  volumes, and in both cases p4 fails to sync files with >31 character
>>  filenames to my client. My workaround has been to:
>>
>>  p4 print -q reallyreallyreallylongfilename.c > 
>>reallyreallyreallylongfilename.c
>>  p4 sync reallyreallyreallylongfilename.c
>>
>>  No, I'm not accidentally running the classic Mac OS version of p4; the Mac
>>  running UFS didn't even have classic installed.
>>
>>  cheers,
>>  jon
>
>----- End forwarded message -----
>
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