Regression of failed backup with long file names can result in assertion error about rdiff-backup

[anomaly256]

Thanks for the repro instructions, I'll test and investigate this today. Sorry for the long delay in responding

[hallyn]

Any update on this?

[schniepp]

I'd also be interested, as I have the same problem.

[ericzolf]

If you could validate that this issue still happens when using the PR #53 that would be really nice.

[ericzolf]

OK, the issue still happens with the master branch. I've already written a regression test script heavily based on the script provided by @zjw (thanks!), available for now from the work-in-progress branch ericzolf-regress-longname-9 (we might want to re-write it in Python like all the other tests but I don't know if it's worth the issue, we should definitely add it though to tox.ini once fixed).

@anomaly256 are you still owning the issue and be available to fix it?