FAQ update request: Disable indexing service

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Fredrik Orderud

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Nov 20, 2011, 8:47:02 AM11/20/11
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I believe that SVN 1.7 now sets the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED flag
on “.svn” metadata folders [1,2]. It should therefore not be neccesary to
recommend against indexing of subversion working-copies in the TortoiseSVN
FAQ any more.

Could it be an idea to update the FAQ to reflect this?

Thanks in advance,
Fredrik Orderud

[1]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.7.x/subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c
[2] http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-02/0124.shtml

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Stefan Küng

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Nov 20, 2011, 1:34:58 PM11/20/11
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On 20.11.2011 14:47, Fredrik Orderud wrote:
> I believe that SVN 1.7 now sets the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED flag
> on “.svn” metadata folders [1,2]. It should therefore not be neccesary to
> recommend against indexing of subversion working-copies in the TortoiseSVN
> FAQ any more.
>
> Could it be an idea to update the FAQ to reflect this?

The FAQ entry talks about an error that can happen and the possible
solution is to disable the indexing service on working copies.
That's still very relevant.

The FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED flag is only set on the .svn
folders where the working copy metadata is kept. Not on the working copy
itself. So the indexing service is still indexing all the files in a
working copy (which is something users still might want to do).

Stefan

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Fredrik Orderud

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Nov 23, 2011, 8:08:23 AM11/23/11
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My thought was that the indexing service cannot possible be causing ".svn"-folder related errors any more, since ".svn"-folders are excluded from indexing in SVN 1.7.

Therefore, instructions for how to disable indexing are no longer relevant (unless you don't want to index your working-copies due to other reasons).

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