MerginMaps / MerginMaps/geodiff

Support for long paths on Windows (> 260 characters)

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Since Sep 4, 2026.

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Description

Geodiff on Windows is currently unable to handle paths that are longer than 260 characters. It will fail to open them and to the requested action.

It looks like this needs to be treated specially on Windows with the magic \\?\ path prefix. There are multiple places where this will need to be fixed (sqlite db opens, changeset file opens, various file utilities).

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