Re: Questions about SAMBA mounts and TortoiseSVN

Cyril GUILLERMINET wrote:

> I know that the ReadDirectoryChangesW() call is not supported by SAMBA so
> overlays don't work on samba mounts.
>
> My question now: is it planned to develop an alternate way of detecting file
> changes as the slow but working method used by tortoiseCVS ?

There already is:
Settings dialog->Icon Overlays->Status Cache - set it to "Shell" instead
of "Default".

> So we can choose to use the method using ReadDirectoryChangesW() or the
> other one that makes tortoiseSVN compatible with SAMBA shares.

There is no other API than ReadDirectoryChangesW() available. All we can
do is simply *not* use that API and watch the folders for changes but
simply fetch the status all the time.

Stefan

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