FileName Too Long Abort!?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Ross <rossgk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Drat - wish I knew there was some lame filename length issue before I
> started moving everything into Mercurial.  :(
> I was cloning a repository and got this message:
>
> abort: File name too long: /Volumes/ross_ntwk/Project_Safe/Hg_space/
> Biz_TheProj/Specs & Design Docs/>Client-Side Docs

What type of file system is on /Volumes/ross_ntwk?

> Is there some way around this?  Is this really file name length
> issues, or does it have a problem with some characters perhaps?
> This looks like an issue with the receiving side of the clone (which
> is where this path is pointing)
> Any guidance, short of renaming a bunch of my project files?
>
> Ross.