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

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:21:57 +0100

On 02.02.2010 09:45, lio_at_lunesu.com wrote:
> 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.)

Well, C: is not a network drive, so that setting won't apply to the
whole drive and all paths below it.

> 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.
>

Try a nightly build from trunk.
The exclude paths work better there.

Stefan

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