How do I safely restart TortoiseSVN?

Question

It's not obvious to me..

Answer 1

The background process that watches your file system for SVN related files and folders is TSVNCache.exe. You can kill that process and start it again, or just reboot your machine :)

Answer 2

If you do kill TSVNCache, you don't need to manually restart it, the shell-extension will do that next time it needs it.

If you're trying to restart the shell-extension, you might achieve it by killing all Explorer.exe processes, and anything else which has ended-up with TSVN in-process. This is basically any app which has asked the shell about icons, or has used the common file/directory dialogs. You may need to use something like "Process Explorer" (sysinternals) to find which processes have the TSVN DLLs loaded.