Re: Cache gets out of date, doesn't refresh.

Jeff Adams wrote:
> This seemed to happen occasionally in 1.5, but ever since 1.6 came out
> the icon overlays (normal, modified, etc) seem to get out of date very
> frequently, and stay that way. For example, I have a folder tree like this:
>
> folder1\
> folder2\
> folder3\
> file1.txt
>
> I modify file1.txt. Sometimes folder1, 2, and 3 are marked modified,
> sometimes not. I then commit folder1 (the commit dialog shows that
> file1.txt is modified, I type in a message, it commits the change).
>
> At this point, it is actually very rare for folder1 and folder2 to be
> marked normal again, and even folder 3 is only sometimes updated.
> Usually the only way to get them to be marked normal again is to
> navigate down to folder3, then there is a pause (1-2 seconds) where all
> the icon overlays vanish, then they reappear correct (all marked
> normal). Then I navigate up to folder 2, and it will usually (but not
> always) update to normal, then up to folder 1 and it will usually be
> updated to normal.
>
> This is quite aggravating, because it makes the icon overlays
> effectively useless. A "normal" overlay on a folder doesn't mean
> anything, since there may be modified files in that folder, and a
> "modified" overlay is very often displayed even for folders where the
> changes were committed minutes, hours, or even days ago.
>
> Often (but not always) doing an svn:update of folder1 will cause it to
> refresh. Hitting "F5" (refresh the explorer window) will also sometimes
> work, but usually only if it is the immediate contents of the folder
> that have changed state (I.E. it might work for folder3, but not folder2
> or folder1).
>
> Our subversion server is not the fastest, and sometimes our directory
> trees are quite large (although not necessarily the ones immediately
> affected by this). So I was wondering if possibly there is a timeout
> happening, where the cache process gives up on updating the icons?

You can try a nightly build if you like. I made some improvements which
reduce the out-of-dateness of overlays.

Stefan

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