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Re-2: TSVNCache questions

From: <wek_at_kuhnle.com>
Date: 2007-11-19 22:46:51 CET

> The order used to determine whether the cache process checks a
> certain path is as follows:
> 1) path is in the 'include path' list
> 2) path is allowed by 'drive type'
> 3) path is not in the 'exclude path' list
>
> if *one* of the three rules above evaluate to TRUE, the overlays for the
> path are shown. If all three are FALSE, the overlay is not shown.

I can't believe this; did you mean:

if (path is in the 'include path' list OR path is allowed by 'drive type')
AND path is not in the 'exclude path' list
the overlays for the path are shown ?

Or have I somehow completely misunderstood this ?

Werner

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: TSVNCache questions (19-Nov-2007 20:07)
From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com>
To: wek@kuhnle.com

> Robert Denton wrote:
> > Hi - I have a couple three questions regarding the TSVN Cache:
> >
> > When defining exclusions or inclusions for the Icon overlays, we have
> > found that it is best to exclude all drives that do not have a working
> > copy on them (C:\* F:\*, etc) and to specifically include the the path
> > for the working repo itself (D:\svn-local\*). Given this, my first
> > question is:
> >
> > 1. Is it better to check or uncheck "Fixed Disks" in the Drive Types
> > section? Normally I keep all options unchecked as I do not want the
> > cache to troll the other drive types at all. However, I assumed that in
> > order for the inclusions and exclusions to work the "Fixed Disks" would
> > have to be checked. That does not seem to be the case, however.
>
> The order used to determine whether the cache process checks a certain
> path is as follows:
> 1) path is in the 'include path' list
> 2) path is allowed by 'drive type'
> 3) path is not in the 'exclude path' list
>
> if *one* of the three rules above evaluate to TRUE, the overlays for the
> path are shown. If all three are FALSE, the overlay is not shown.
>
> Which means: if you have the paths already in the 'include list', it
> doesn't matter whether you've enable the drive types or not.
>
> > 2. Sometimes a use will complain that their 'SVN' stopped responding. I
> > get on their machine and discover that indeed, you cannot do anything in
> > the file explorer. When I manually kill the TSVNCache process though,
> > everything is operational again, and quite speedy. Why does TSVNCache
> > hang like that? What is it doing?
>
> That looks like a bug. Are you maybe using multiple user sessions?
> (i.e., multiple users logged on to the same machine)? In that case, you
> could try a nightly build which has some improvements in that area.
>
> > and lastly...
> >
> > 3. I couldn't find a section in the TSVN online docs discussing the TSVN
> > Cache. Will their be a section dedicated to it eventually? I'd love to
> > see a best practices doc at least. Thanks!
>
> Good idea.
> Added this to our doc issue in the tracker:
> http://issues.tortoisesvn.net/index.php?do=details&task_id=354
>
> Stefan
>
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