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Re: TortoiseSVN not in context menu

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:50:22 +0100

Garratt wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I created a simple install bat file which:
>
> 1. Installs TortoiseSVN
> 2. Setups registry entries (so my colleagues do not have to)
>
> This worked fine on the first 6 pc's (which have had Tortoise
> installed before). On the 7 seventh however the Tortoise context menu
> entries are non existent after the install.
>
> So i tried to uninstall Tortoise and reinstall manually, but the same
> result, the context menu is missing.
> However the TortoiseSVN folder in All Programs have been created and
> you can access the settings from it, so it
> have been installed.
>
> Only thing I can think is that it might be related to the fact that my
> Install.bat, adds registry entries right after the TortoiseSVN install
> and right before the restart.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> My install.bat:
>
> msiexec /i "T:\Install\SVN\Client Install\TortoiseSVN-1.5.2.13595-
> win32-svn-1.5.1.msi" /passive /norestart
>
> REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TortoiseSVN /v CheckNewerWeek /f
> REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TortoiseSVN /v
> ContextMenuEntries /f
> ....

Note: there will be *no* registry entries under HKCU after a fresh
install of TSVN. All entries there will be created by TSVN when it is
run, not during installation.

Maybe your script aborts here if the keys don't exist?

Stefan

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Received on 2008-11-05 18:50:43 CET

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