Default repository

[Richard Ferrara]

How do I set the default repository that TortoiseSVN opens when I launch the repo browser? Right now it's set to a project that I haven't worked on in years and no longer have access to, and I repeatedly have to cancel out of a password pop-up box before I can open something useful.

I've looked for this option in the Settings menus and configuration file but it doesn't appear to be anywhere. It seems like this should be something simple, but no one in my company's IT department or software team seems to know how to do it, and I haven't been able to find it anywhere in TortoiseSVN's help documentation or even online.

[Niklas Matthies]

You can edit the entries in the registry under
HKCU\SOFTWARE\TortoiseSVN\History\repoURLS (the "url<n>" entries). The
one selected by default is "url0".

Niklas

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[Richard Ferrara]

Just tried that. It didn't work. It's still trying to load the repository for the old project. I even tried logging out of my PC and back in.

[Richard Ferrara]

I just tried that. It didn't work. It's still trying to load the repository for the old project. I even tried logging out of my PC and logging back on.

On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 10:56:54 AM UTC-5 Niklas Matthies wrote:

[Niklas Matthies]

I probably misunderstood your use case. The registry key applies to
when you start the repo browser either from the start menu, or from
the explorer context menu outside of a versioned directory. (On a
versioned directory, it obviously opens the repo for that directory.)
You then get a dialog box (title "URL") with a combo box (labelled
"URL") containing the URLs from the registry key, from which you can
choose the one you want to open. It seems you're referring to
something else, but I don't know what that would be.

Niklas

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[Richard Ferrara]

I'm referring to right-clicking on the Windows desktop and selecting TortoiseSVN > Repo-browser.

[Niklas Matthies]

That opens the dialog box I described, which lets you choose the repo
to open. The only other explanation I can think of is that your
Desktop folder happens to reside within an SVN working directory. E.g.
maybe your home directory (%USERPROFILE%) has an .svn directory?

Otherwise I'll have to defer to the TortoiseSVN devs, I'm just a user
myself.

Niklas

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[Stefan]

you can also delete entries from that list by selecting the entry, click the arrow button to make it drop down and then hit Shift+Delete

[Niklas Matthies]

Nice! Is there a reason why plain Delete doesn't work?
I had tried plain Delete, because that works in other applications,
and had concluded that the functionality is not supported.

Niklas

On Fri 2021-03-12 at 07:59h, Stefan via TortoiseSVN wrote on tortoisesvn:
>you can also delete entries from that list by selecting the entry, click
>the arrow button to make it drop down and then hit Shift+Delete
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On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 5:02:45 PM UTC+1 Niklas Matthies wrote:

Nice! Is there a reason why plain Delete doesn't work?
I had tried plain Delete, because that works in other applications,
and had concluded that the functionality is not supported

default Windows behavior to delete entries from a list is Shift+Delete. plain Delete only deletes one char backwards in the edit control.

Plain Delete would only work if the list is readonly

 

[Niklas Matthies]

Ok, what I meant is when the keyboard focus is in the dropdown list on
an element. Pressing Delete there doesn't apply to the text box, and
in some applications it works for deleting the selected entry. I
wasn't aware that Shift+Delete is a standard behavior, good to know.

Niklas