I found this message on the TSVN DEV mailing list archives:
>From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
>Date: 2006-11-09 19:08:42 CET
>
>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.
Are you saying that if I set the Status Cache to Shell then I should see
the proper icons and get the proper menu choices on a smb mount
(perhaps after doing a refresh)? Because I tried this and it does not work.
-larry
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Received on Wed Apr 4 23:17:13 2007