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Re: Default value of show excluded folders as normal

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:30:54 +0000

On 17 February 2010 21:22, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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".

I remember the opposite problem where users have complained that there
are green checkmarks everywhere and we had to tell them to disable
that option.

>> 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.

That would be my inclination. If I specifically exclude a folder, then
by default I would not expect to see any green checkmark unless I
tweaked some other setting to turn them back on in a limited way.

One thing which might help is moving that checkbox down next to the
exclude list so that it is more obvious what it is connected with.

Simon

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