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Re: Feature request: SVN managed folders should be able to use the folder icon from desktop.ini file

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:54:39 -0500

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:36, Hannes Restel
<hannes.restel_at_isst.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'd like to propose a feature request that is 'nice to have' but it is
> very useful to me.
>
> For some folders in my Windows environment I have defined a
> 'desktop.ini' file for displaying an individual folder icon instead of
> the default Windows folder icon.. That file is saved directly into the
> folder along with an Icon file.
>
> When checking out this folder as a SVN repository, the indiviudalized
> folder icon is replaced by the standard Windows icon
> I think the reason for this behaviour are the tiny SVN status symbols at
> the botton of the folder icon.(e.g. the red "!" or the green checkmark).

Icon overlays are just that - overlays. Note that for arbitrary files,
as long as they're in a WC, they get an overlay regardless of what
they are. It has nothing to do with the underlying icon itself.

> So using my individualized folder icons instead of the standard Windows
> icon by the Windows Interface for SVN would be great!
> Is that possible at all?

Wouldn't putting desktop.ini and the corresponding icon file be
required to make this happen? And if so, why not do it yourself on
directories that you want this to happen on, instead of layering it
into the client by default? What happens if the path to the file
holding the icon is different on another user's computer than on yours
(like D:\program files vs. c:\program files)?

This sounds more like file/environment metadata which, like local
filesystem ACLs, is not handled by Subversion at all - intentionally.

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