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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello All . . .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I didn’t know/realize this before, so perhaps there is
at least one person out there for which this is news (pardon me if I’m wrong
on this):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Subversion (SVN) is the actual version control
system for which there is a command line interface.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Subversion is an open source product maintained
by the Apache folk.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>TortoiseSVN is a very nice, well maintained,
widely used, Windows interface built on top of Subversion.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>TortoiseSVN links to the Subversion library
directly, so it does not actually invoke any commands.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The primary issue with Windows 7 (x64 or otherwise, but
worse on x64) is the very useful feature of the status icons which tells you
the status of controlled modules in real time inside Windows Explorer.
Windows only supports 15 icon overlays, and uses 4 of them itself. This
leaves 11 icon overlays for all other applications to use. The TortoiseSVN
icons do not appear (and hence you get the impression that TortoiseSVN is not
working) when there are too many applications trying to use the 11 available
icon overlay slots.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Turns out that Windows Groove uses a bunch, Perforce uses three,
and Mozy uses a bunch. I’m sure there are others. Also,
Windows sorts the icon overlays alphabetically by name and dishes out the
available slots in that order. Thus, TortoiseSVN is usually last in
line. To correct this problem, you can uninstall things you may not
be using (such as Groove). You can also twiddle the registry:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The popular technique is to prepend a ‘z’ or
something on the names of the overlay icons which you do not need, which then
forces them to the bottom of the priority list. This makes restoring them
at some point in the future relatively easy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>By the way, the guys supporting TortoiseSVN are wonderful
and provide top notch support. They deserve three cheers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Norm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"'>Norm Olsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Software Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Autodesk, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>303-277-9967<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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