Re: mark .svn folders to not get indexed

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:42, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some time now I've been looking for a way to configure the windows
> indexing service to not index the .svn folders. I wanted to do that in my
> installer for TSVN, but after countless hours of searching the web and
> reading up even on the internals of the service I found that there just
> isn't a way to do that.
>
> Then I found a way to do this: just set the attribute
> FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED on the .svn folder - the files and
> folders created in it will automatically inherit that attribute when they
> get created.
> But this would have to be done in the svn library when those folders and
> files are created.
>
> Unfortunately, apr doesn't provide a way to set this flag when creating the
> folders or even later, so this would mean OS specific code in the svn
> library.
>
> The advantages for Windows users would be:
> * a search won't show matches in the pristine files, those search results
> are useless for users anyway and are only "spam" in the results
> * the indexing service won't crawl unnecessary data, reducing disk access a
> lot
> * since the indexing service won't crawl the .svn folder anymore,
> access-denied errors during svn commands would also get reduced, especially
> errors like these:
> http://subversion.wandisco.com/blogs/windows-7-bogus-errorfilecorrupt-error-.html
>
>
> I still remember the heated discussions about setting the hidden attribute
> on Windows for the .svn folders, so I'd like to discuss this first before I
> commit the change to init_adm()
>
> #ifdef WIN32
> /* tell Windows to not index the admin dir and its content */
> const char * admdirpath = svn_wc__adm_child(local_abspath, NULL, pool);
> SetFileAttributes(admindirpath, GetFileAttributes(admindirpath)
>                                |FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED);
> #endif
>
>
>
I'm big +1 for marking .svn not indexed by Windows indexing service.

-- 
Ivan Zhakov
VisualSVN Team