Re: Icons updating correctly rev 4858

Peter McNab wrote:

> Yes, I tried again and all has worked normal too (after the once only
> cache restart).
>
> What I thought I should do is more precisely describe how the problem
> manifested itself because there is a clue embedded therein.
>
> What I had been doing at the time when I noticed the problem was going
> through various project folders deleting auto generated files before
> committing some project changes.
> It was on navigation back out of a folder high in the directory
> structure that a folder containing correctly displayed changed files
> reverted to the incorrect (unmodified) icon state.

But the files in it were still shown as modified?

> The incorrectly displayed folder was accompanied two others, correctly
> displayed, one showing modified the other unmodified.
> Reversing out of that folder back to the branched level revealed an
> unmodified status whereas it should have been modified..
> Reversing further out showed the unmodified status had propagated
> backwards to the project root.
> I had the whole project checked out, not just a high level WC.
> Once the error had occurred, no amount of navigating and F5-ing would
> fix the problem.
> I don't use the two pane view in Explorer.
>
> So, it appears that the unupdated status has propagated back towards the
> WC root regardless of there being another folder in the directory
> structure correctly displaying the modified status.

Yes, that's how it works.
But after propagating the status up through the tree, the cache crawls
all those folders again and will eventually update the overlays again.
Of course, depending on the size of your working copy, this can take a
while (and during that time, F5 won't help because that simply triggers
a new crawl).

Stefan

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