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Re: TSVN 1.7.1 on Windows7 64bit: no overlay icon after revert of local changes

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:17:07 +0100

On 31.10.2011 09:21, Wolf Peuker wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Am 28.10.2011 14:49, schrieb Stefan Küng:
>> The status cache crawls folders as soon as it detects a change. This can
>> lead to a heavy disk load if a folder is used a lot, for example if you
>> run a build.
>> To avoid such situations, the status cache process has a few safeguards
>> in place:
>> * Once a folder is crawled and its status fetched, that same folder
>> won't get crawled again for about a minute.
>> * when TSVN does an update/commit/..., it sends the cache a message
>> telling it to block that folder and all folders below it. As soon as the
>> TSVN operation is finished (i.e., the dialog showing the operation
>> progress is closed), it sends the cache another message to unblock the
>> folder again. The cache *then* crawls the folder and refreshes the status.
>> * in case the cache encounters an error while crawling a folder, that
>> folder is blocked from crawling again for two minutes. Such crawl errors
>> can happen if the working copy database is currently in use (e.g.,
>> another SVN client accesses it, a virus scanner has the file open
>> exclusively, ...).
>>
> Thanks for the detailed description. :-)
> Is something of this kind included in the manual?
>
> If I understand it correctly, it seems that blocking a folder from being
> crawled may last for a maximum of 2 minutes. If I add the maximum
> crawling time (depending on the size of my working copy), I get the
> maximum time I've to wait shortly after my last edit (if it caused an
> error, which I cannot exclude nor surely detect)? ...and I don't know
> how long a full crawl takes... this does not feel so good. :-(
>
> Is there a way to explicitly re-trigger the crawling?

When a path is unblocked, it is crawled immediately again.

Stefan

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