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Windows and slow right clicks
Ever since I installed Tortoise SVN I saw that the right-clicks on my Windows XP SP2 had been terribly slow. It seems like Tortoise performs a whole lot of caching. Every time you right click all the cache entries are browsed and updates are sought. Although, the interface provides ways to disable this overlay caching, it seemed to me that the caching was being performed regardless. I had to uninstall the client to restore the sanity of my right-clicks. I guess software designers should make design decisions such that the UI responsiveness is not compromised for Windows Shell extensions.
Rajat, in case your SVN server is a different machine, then you can stop using Tortoise-SVN as a SVN client and resort to much lighter versions like SVN-Workbench – or better yet, stick to the console. But for newbie programmers, Tortoise provides an easy abstraction instead of learning the rigmaroles of check-in, check-out, collision handling etc. Anyhow, it runs fine on a 1GB+ machine 🙂
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LikeDislikeI have a machine that is with a 2GB RAM. It’s not the RAM but the number of folders that you have in your directory structure that creates a performance impact for Tortoise SVN. Advice well taken though for the alternate SVN clients. Thanks!
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