Thanks! Ah, well - I'll give it a try... pity Microsoft just turned that indexing off, without even a registry setting to re-enable it.
On Monday, May 1, 2023 at 1:38:47 PM UTC+1 Pavel Lyalyakin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 12:13 PM Daniel Sahlberg via TortoiseSVN-dev < > tortois...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> fredag 28 april 2023 kl. 10:14:16 UTC+2 skrev i.ku...@soton.ac.uk: >> >> The above is a major pain! I am very remote from software development, >> but how difficult would it be to add an option to give those folders >> different names in local copies when TortoiseSVN is installed? - Ilya >> >> >> There is an option to ask Subversion to use the directory name "_svn" >> instead of ".svn", see the SVN Book: >> https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.basic.in-action.wc >> > > I feel that this might work because Microsoft says that Windows Search > excludes subtrees whose parent has the .svn or .git directory. So perhaps > changing .svn to _svn will make Windows Search index SVN working copies. > > But I'm unsure if this is a viable workaround. I haven't heard about SVN > client installations using SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK for many years, and I > haven't tested this myself. > > >> I'm not sure if/how well it works with TortoiseSVN but since it is done >> in the Subversion library, I assume it should work. >> >> Towards the end of this superuser.com article, there is a suggestion to >> exclude .git folders making the indexer work again, maybe the same works >> with .svn folders: >> >> >> https://superuser.com/questions/1540945/how-to-stop-windows-search-from-auto-excluding-repository-folders >> >> Kind regards, >> Daniel Sahlberg >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TortoiseSVN-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to tortoisesvn-d...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn-dev/c513afa9-b468-4992-a6b3-a15a88fe8235n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn-dev/c513afa9-b468-4992-a6b3-a15a88fe8235n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > With best regards, > Pavel Lyalyakin > VisualSVN Team > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tortoisesvn-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn-dev/52d4b011-30f4-4603-8935-b5025c45f503n%40googlegroups.com.
