[cfe-dev] FW: Patch for UCNs in string literals

[Kovarththanan Rajaratnam]

Hey,

AlisdairM(public) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Argyrios Kyrtzidis [mailto:kyrtzidis at apple.com]
>> Sent: 05 July 2009 18:01
>> To: AlisdairM (public)
>> Cc: cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
>> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] FW: Patch for UCNs in string literals
> 
>> What is the problem with tortoise ? IMO it's the best SVN tool
>> available (and its patches include svn-added files).
> 
> The problem with Tortoise is that it is a shell extension, so is active everywhere in the Windows shell, whether the current directory houses an SVN repository or not.  The convenience looks nice, but the potential for problems on whole system stability rise considerably too.  Maybe I just had bad experiences with a poor tortoise release, but it persuaded me to adopt a simple NO policy to any shell extension.

TortoiseSVN has an option allowing you to restrict it to certain 
folders. Look for "Exclude Paths"/"Include Paths". This should give you 
a nice performance boost.

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Best regards,
Kovarththanan Rajaratnam