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Re: Overlay icons and locked/busy folders

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:51:01 +0100

On 11.11.2011 08:56, Jean-Marc van Leerdam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently there have been several reports about the (temporary) absence
> of overlay icons on files/folders that were involved in (T)SVN
> operations. IIUC the TSVN cache will try to determine the file/folder
> status as soon as possible, but whenever it encounters a 'busy' folder
> will wait for X seconds before trying again. This is a good thing, since
> it prevents over-activity inside working copies that are being processed
> by SVN.
>
> What I am not happy about is the default response to hitting a
> locked/busy area: not show any overlay.
>
> Why don't we show the currently known file/folder status until the TSVN
> cache has determined the new state? I know that the state may be
> incorrect, but at least it will be a state and not 'nothing', which is
> now often the case: a file is modified (red exclamation), gets committed
> (flashes green icon, then loses overlay) and after some time (up to 2
> minutes IIRC) the normal (green tick) is shown.
>
> I have also observed the 'added' overlay being briefly shown
> (immediately after the add completes) and then disappearing again for
> minutes until it reappears and remains visible until commit time.
>
> Can any of the developers shed some light on the known reasons/causes of
> the current behavior and the future plans to address this (if it needs
> to be addressed)?

Opened issue #134 for this:
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/issues/detail?id=134

Stefan

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