Tortoise SVN - has anyone ever got the explorer overlay icons to work propertly?
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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.
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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
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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
Well, we also used to have problems with it but some times it will display them without any problems (may require a reboot sometimes).
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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
No, it was definitely something in Vistas shell that did it. I remember reading an article about it, where a developer stated "well, we really can't do anything about it, unless Microsoft releases some undocumented API". If that was a white lie or not, I don't know.
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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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