Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:36 AM
We use Subversion for source control for contract projects and on the desktop, I use TortoiseSVN. It's a great program with a really full feature set, but I've never been able to run it completely stably. It just drives me nuts. In Windows Explorer, 4 out of 5 times, explorer.exe hangs on right-click. It seems to be any right-click on files or folders. I've read about how recursively scanning subfolders (assuming that the folder is a Subversion checkout) can slow things down, but this is 100% locked up. As in, mouse won't move, music stops playing. Hung.
The weird thing, is it will stay like that forever -- unless I hit the Escape key. That's the only way that I can break out of it. If I'm running Task Manager at the time, it stops refreshing -- everything does, but after I hit Escape, it catches the tail end of activity and shows explorer.exe at the top, never the tsnvcache.exe as you might expect. This has lingered through every version that I've ever installed, on three different machines. Can I really be the only one experiencing it?!
If anyone has every come across this, let me know! I just hate it. I fear my right button!