When I try to get a branch, Im getting an TFS Java SDK Exception:

Caused by: com.microsoft.tfs.core.exceptions.TECoreException: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.

In the oldest version of plugin, using the command line client with Jenkins 1.x, I have experienced the same problem, but a hint given by the error show me that there is a solution:

An error occurred: TF400951: The operation failed. You must use Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 or a later version to work with paths that are longer than 259 characters

I already have this issue with eclipse TFS plugin. The newest version of that plugin resolved this problem.

I think that, maybe, the SDK must be updated from 14.0.2 to 14.0.3.