Tortoise SVN - has anyone ever got the explorer overlay icons to work propertly?
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I've used it now through several versions, and also different versions of Windows and in every case it balks at updating the icon overlays after a commit. In other words it shows them as still needing a commit when I've already done it. Then it will randomly refresh for no apparent reason or not ever for no apparent reason. Just me or...?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Microsoft apparently made changes to the shell in Vista, which made it hard/near impossible to get it right. I'm guessing it has something to do with caching, because it works after refreshing the folder contents and/or logging in and out.
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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I've used it now through several versions, and also different versions of Windows and in every case it balks at updating the icon overlays after a commit. In other words it shows them as still needing a commit when I've already done it. Then it will randomly refresh for no apparent reason or not ever for no apparent reason. Just me or...?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I don't believe I ever got it to properly store and retrieve my source code.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I've used it now through several versions, and also different versions of Windows and in every case it balks at updating the icon overlays after a commit. In other words it shows them as still needing a commit when I've already done it. Then it will randomly refresh for no apparent reason or not ever for no apparent reason. Just me or...?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
John C wrote:
Just me or...?
Nope. Me too. Another reason to stick with XP. ;) Marc
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May I suggest the best workaround available? Kill the TSVNCache process and everything will be fine. Your computer will be much faster as well. Although it is a service and it will be re-launched as soon as you kill it but you will be relieved for a good 15-20 seconds to find your computer in a zippy state :-\
Now somebody just needs to make a background service that kills TSVNCache every 15-20 seconds. :)
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I've used it now through several versions, and also different versions of Windows and in every case it balks at updating the icon overlays after a commit. In other words it shows them as still needing a commit when I've already done it. Then it will randomly refresh for no apparent reason or not ever for no apparent reason. Just me or...?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
1.6.8 was the last good version. It's been crap ever since. I've had to "set machine back to earlier time" and re-install the older version 1.6.8 to get it to work since uninstall and cleaning the registry of debris it left doesn't work including the overlays. I suspect I will be with 1.6.8 until the mess is fixed once and for all.
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I've used it now through several versions, and also different versions of Windows and in every case it balks at updating the icon overlays after a commit. In other words it shows them as still needing a commit when I've already done it. Then it will randomly refresh for no apparent reason or not ever for no apparent reason. Just me or...?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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John C wrote:
Just me or...?
Nope. Me too. Another reason to stick with XP. ;) Marc
I *did* have the problem with XP and with Vista and with w7. Exact same problem no difference between any of those os's.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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it worked very well, pre-vista, but they (Microsoft) decided to limit the number of explorer overlay available. anyway, most of the time it works well with vista (for me) and W7 (for cubicule buddies). M.
Watched code never compiles.
Maximilien wrote:
pre-vista, but they (Microsoft) decided to limit the number of explorer overlay available
The image overlay limit is set for any ImageList control (including the one that Shell uses) and it was only increased between the control versions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb761389(VS.85).aspx[^].
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I don't believe I ever got it to properly store and retrieve my source code.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Hmmm...I've *never* had any problem with the actual functionality, only with the icon overlays.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Microsoft apparently made changes to the shell in Vista, which made it hard/near impossible to get it right. I'm guessing it has something to do with caching, because it works after refreshing the folder contents and/or logging in and out.
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
Refresh doesn't make any difference, it seems to have a mind of it's own and I had the same problem in XP.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The only thing I've found it reliable or good for is not working properly.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Huh, I've never had any issues with it's core functionality, just this icon thing.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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May I suggest the best workaround available? Kill the TSVNCache process and everything will be fine. Your computer will be much faster as well. Although it is a service and it will be re-launched as soon as you kill it but you will be relieved for a good 15-20 seconds to find your computer in a zippy state :-\
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In other words it shows them as still needing a commit when I've already done it.
A couple of workarounds that filled the gap for me: 1) Navigate into one folder and Back to the original location. 2) ALT+TAB from the explorer window. These seem to be forcing Windows to repaint the view. My OS is Windows Server 2008 R2.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep!Yes that helps sometimes but more often than not it makes no difference, even when I close and restart explorer. I'm thinking it's this cache process mentioned later that's the issue.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We use Tortoise too, and have suffered the same problem. Having used several different source control management tools, I'm not convinced that Subversion is the great tool that so many seem to think it is.
Subversion is rock solid here and has been for years, it's tortoise which has the issues and they are only with the icon overlay, it's core functionality is great.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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May I suggest the best workaround available? Kill the TSVNCache process and everything will be fine. Your computer will be much faster as well. Although it is a service and it will be re-launched as soon as you kill it but you will be relieved for a good 15-20 seconds to find your computer in a zippy state :-\
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Subversion is rock solid here and has been for years, it's tortoise which has the issues and they are only with the icon overlay, it's core functionality is great.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Hmmm...I've *never* had any problem with the actual functionality, only with the icon overlays.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I got roped into using it remotely, and had no end of trouble, but I suspect that was largely due to configuration on the other end. Anyhow, there were enough issues to make me hate it.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I've used it now through several versions, and also different versions of Windows and in every case it balks at updating the icon overlays after a commit. In other words it shows them as still needing a commit when I've already done it. Then it will randomly refresh for no apparent reason or not ever for no apparent reason. Just me or...?
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I have this problem all the time. I just do a "Clean up" on the folder and the icons are updated correctly.
Genius! Thank you very much, that worked perfectly. Cheers!
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I *did* have the problem with XP and with Vista and with w7. Exact same problem no difference between any of those os's.
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
John C wrote:
I *did* have the problem with XP
Hmmm...I seem to recall my problems started when I moved to Vista, but that may have coincided with a Tortoise update as well. Marc