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Re: TortoiseSVN Bug with overlay icons on network drives

From: Udo Eberhardt <Udo.Eberhardt_at_thesycon.de>
Date: 2006-12-16 16:33:46 CET

Stefan Küng wrote:
> Udo Eberhardt wrote:
>> I do also have the problem that icons mix up because all my working
>> copies exist on a SUBST drive (for the same reasons already mentioned
>> in this thread). I tried the suggestion to use a loopback network
>> drive instead. The problem with this is that disk I/O throughput is
>> cut down by a factor of two (at least on my machine). So
>> compiler/linker runs much slower which is bad.
>>
>> Is there any chance that the problems with SUBST drives will be fixed
>> in future releases, or are there serious technical problems?
>
> There's an easy way to solve this:
> just exclude the original path from showing overlays (settings->icon
> overlays->exclude paths).
>
> For example, if you have mapped \\station\folder\wc to g:
> then put "\\station\folder\wc*" as the exclude pattern.
>
> The problems arise because the cache tries to fetch the status for two
> "different" locations at the same time, but those locations are actually
> the same --> two status fetchings for the same wc at the same time.
> Subversion (I think more specifically apr) has problems with that and
> can't work properly all the time in that case. But that's not just a
> problem of apr but windows in general (SUBST drives are not real drives,
> and certain API's don't work at all with those).
>
> Stefan
>

That's a great tip. Thanks! I will give it a try and report back my results.

If this work-around works well then you should consider adding it to the
docs.

Udo

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