Tortoise SVN doesn't show those green , red , yellow icons when the files changed that are under source control, I can see them in windows XP but not on Windows 2008. But when I right click and try to commit, it gives me a list of files that are changed. Any idea why/fix?
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A:
Did you recently upgrade TortoiseSVN from a previous version? Do a repair installation to restore your icons.
Trevor Balcom
2010-06-28 16:44:31
I had exactly this issue with the release before last and a repair of the installation fixed it.
Ira Rainey
2010-06-28 17:01:10
I should have done that before asking Q. Thanks Trevor!
Broken Link
2010-06-28 18:26:25
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Try killing the TSVNCache.exe process and re-starting it. Is your local SVN respotitory on the large side? In a previous job we migrated from XP to Vista while using Tortoise and, with a fairly huge codebase (many files), we all found those icons to be somewhat unreliable as a rule.
David
2010-06-28 16:46:42
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A:
This has been a pretty big problem for a variety of reasons. These are all outlined in the TortoiseSVN FAQ. Here are the relevant links:
- After upgrading TortoiseSVN, all my icon overlays have disappeared
- The overlay icons appear, but not all of them!
- The overlay icons appear, but not all of them!
As part of this, if you have recently installed another program that uses overlays (Mozy is one that comes to mind), you may see this problem as well. Unfortunately, Windows has a (artificial?) limitation on the number of potential overlays that can be shown.
JasCav
2010-06-28 16:50:33