Re: Default value of show excluded folders as normal

On 17.02.2010 21:26, Kevin Radke wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Stefan Küng<tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17.02.2010 03:38, Kevin Radke wrote:
>>> In debugging DFS performance problems with Microsoft, it was
>>> determined that TortoiseSVN was crawling network shares even
>>> when the Network drive type was not enabled. Network
>>> traces showed it was recursively looking for .svn directories
>>> when using Windows explorer to browse to UNC paths.
>>> Status cache was also set to "shell" mode, with no
>>> change in the behavior.
>>>
>>> Disabling "Show excluded folders as normal" stopped the
>>> crawling behavior that would appear to the user as long pauses
>>> when trying to browse UNC paths typed into Windows explorer.
>>>
>>> Any reason this value defaults to on?
>>
>> Yes: users were confused that they didn't see any overlays at all and
>> reported that TSVN wasn't working.
>> That's why we changed the default for this to "on".
>
> Do you remember when it was changed to be on? It seems the

I'd have to search the mailing list. But I'm guessing that's the default
for a long time now.

> extra traffic is a little concerning to our network team (and Microsoft)

Strange, MS never contacted us about that. They contacted us because of
some other problems before, but never because of this.

> in our large WAN environment. I'm sure other corporate
> environments may have similar concerns. Defaulting
> to generating extra network traffic when not even doing
> a subversion operation (just browsing a network share
> when TortoiseSVN is installed) isn't an ideal situation.
> (Browsing a WAN network share seems to double in
> wall clock time when the extra .svn folder checks are enabled.)

I guess I could change the default to off.

Stefan

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