TortoiseSVN creates files with the "I" attribute preventing Windows from full-text search indexing

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Hi,
whenever I do a checkout, the files written by TortoiseSVN to the local directory has the "I" file attribute.
This prevents Windows from content-indexing the file.

Is this a bug or a known behaviour? 

TortoiseSVN 1.11.1, Build 28492 - 64 Bit , 2019/01/08 21:40:39

ipv6 enabled

Subversion 1.11.1, -release

apr 1.6.5

apr-util 1.6.1

serf 1.3.9

OpenSSL 1.1.0j  20 Nov 2018

zlib 1.2.11

SQLite 3.23.1

Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.17763 x64

regards,
Vic

[Stefan]

On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 11:33:21 AM UTC+1, Vic T wrote:

Hi,
whenever I do a checkout, the files written by TortoiseSVN to the local directory has the "I" file attribute.
This prevents Windows from content-indexing the file.

It's a known feature:

* In the very beginning, svn did not set the flag. Not even on the hidden .svn folder. So Windows indexed all files within the .svn folder as well.

* Then svn set the attribute on the .svn folder.

* then Windows started doing the indexing more aggressively, which resulted in svn failures during a checkout/update/whatever since the indexing service would open files for indexing and svn got 'access denied' errors for those files because the indexing server had them opened - so svn now sets the 'don't index' flag on all folders.

if you really want do have your source files indexed, you have to remove the flag manually.