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Re: Open file handles of TSVNCache prevent deletion of directorie s

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-05-23 20:42:47 CEST

Jody Shumaker wrote:
>> It wouldn't really solve that problem. The open handles are dealt with
>> by the cache, but it can only do so if the corresponding app also
>> handles all the required window messages (see my earlier post about
>> it). Without those messages sent, the cache can't know when to close
>> the handles.
>>
>>
>
> There's a problem I've been having though where having the cache use
> svn:ignore would help. VS8 build tries to delete a temp file it
> created and fails because tsvncache.exe has an open handle on it
> still. The file however is in a directory that is set in svn:ignore

Even if we would implement this feature, this case wouldn't be fixed.
You see, the cache can only ignore folders to crawl, but not files. The
cache has to call svn_client_status() on every folder, and that function
touches every file in that folder, even the ignored ones.

Stefan

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