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Re: icon & status cache problems with subst drive on V1.4.0

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-11-08 18:57:50 CET

Gary McGhee wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> I have a subst drive R: assigned to a folder D:\DriveR on a hard drive.
>
> Our team uses drive R: as our primary development root and have had no problems
> with previous versions of TSVN and SVN. Recently I upgraded to V1.4 and have
> noticed :
>
> + green ticks appearing on non-versioned files
> + the "Short URL" column display in explorer being plain wrong eg. inside R: I
> have folders called projects and tools. Under R: they were showing DTIMain (my
> repository name) as the URL, while on D:\DriveR they were showing the correct
> value, a much longer branch URL.
> + The recursive status not working eg. in R:\ the folder are all green, while
> in D:\DriveR one folder is red due to a file inside it being red. Going into
> that folder on R:\ shows the offending file as green too, when it has
> definitely changed. After doing a clean up on this folder, the file goes red,
> but the folder does not.
>
> No amount of refreshing or waiting changes anything.
>
> When I change the "Status Cache" to "Shell" in Settings->Look and Feel->Icon
> Overlays these problems go away, but as documented I no longer have recursive
> overlays which is a very desirable feature.
>
> Subst drives are an extremely useful thing, especially in a team environment.
> It means you can use absolute paths while not dictating where developers place
> their local working copies. This bug makes this technique unreliable - a very
> bad thing in CM.
>
> Thanks to all responsible for TSVN and SVN - its a huge improvement over my
> previous environment - StarTeam, and for free !

I'm sorry, but I can't reproduce this. If I SUBST my working copy of
TSVN to e.g. drive G:\, the overlays and all the additional status
columns work as they should.

What version are you using?

Stefan

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