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How to skip symbolic links (NTFS) to UNC paths?

From: <lio_at_lunesu.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:45:11 +0800

Hi all,

(What I'm doing)

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium and to get some samba folders on
my NAS to appear in Windows 7's Libraries I have made NTFS
symbolic links to the UNC path, like so:

C:\>mklink /d Remote \\Remote\share

This will create a "folder" Remote in C:\ which actually points
to a share on a remote server.

(What I'm seeing)

But, since the contents of this folder are on the network it's
slower than a local HDD. With TortoiseSVN installed it takes a
few seconds to open that folder. SysInternals' process explorer
shows that explorer.exe is looking for .svn subfolders in every
folder in that share. Browsing that same folder using the UNC
path shows no such behavior and browsing is in fact fast.

I've tried to exclude this folder from the TortoiseSVN "Icon
Overlays" property page: excluding c:\Remote\*. I've even tried
unchecking all drive types and explicitly mentioning my sandboxes
in "Include paths".

(What I expect)

In this case, C:\Remote\ should be handled like any other network
location and should be skipped by TortoiseSVN (unless I want it
to check all network locations.)

I also expect the include/exclude paths settings to do just work:
if I don't want overlays for a particular folder, want could
possibly be the reason why TortoiseSVN still looks for .svn
subfolders? I'm not even right-clicking in the folder mind you,
just browsing it using Windows Explorer will result in it
checking for .svn subfolders in each and every folder in the
current view.

Thanks, and special thanks to Stefan for all the great work he
did, is doing, on TortoiseSVN!

Lio.

(Version info)
TortoiseSVN 1.6.7, Build 18415 - 32 Bit , 2010/01/22 17:55:06
Subversion 1.6.9,
apr 1.3.8
apr-utils 1.3.9
neon 0.29.3
OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
zlib 1.2.3

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