TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN on Vista and Windows 7 x64 – Overlay Icons
For more than a year, getting icon overlays to work with both TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN on x64 has been a nightmare.
Not anymore.
First, install the latest stable TortoiseSVN.
Then install my custom build of TortoiseCVS, TortoiseCVS-1.11.6-pardini.exe. It is a custom built CVS-HEAD checkout, without many changes.
Please note that apparently TCVS is the one that decides the icons to use (both TSVN and TCVS will use the same icons), but they all work.
If it’s not working for you, uninstall all TortoiseSVN, TortoiseCVS and TortoiseOverlays you may have installed.
Also delete the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers.
Then reinstall in the order I suggested above.
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I just bought a windows 7 machine and installed tortoise cvs. I’m not seeing the usual green check mark when I post to the server. Will your two downloads fix this issue?
Michael, I surely hope so. I’ve tested it on a few machines and it does work.
Pardini, are you going to release the source code for your modifications to TortoiseCVS… You’ve only given a EXE download, as as such its not really trustable what you’ve modified.
Thanks.
Why won’t you commit your changes to the repository and have these changes become a part of the mainstream version?
Isn’t that the point of open source?
As someone else has pointed out, I do have mixed feelings when I decide to download this thing and install it.
hehe, but you’ll download the msi install off a trunk stored on sourceforge.net
ive got no problem recompiling the software.. I would just like to know how you managed to register all to have the columns of cvs as i read this wasnt possible in the vista&7 design.
Hi pardini,
Is your version of tortoire can support the cvs column of CVS revision and TAG in the detail view of windows explorer.
Thank
Dominic
Guys, there’s really no new sources involved. It’s just a new recompile of the trunk/head source from original TortoiseCVS.
There is no support for the explorer columns since Windows Vista, there’s nothing wrong with Tortoise, it’s just M$ removed that capability.
Doesn’t deletion of the ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers key remove shell icons for ALL installed products that use them?
Pardini,
I did what you said and it works fine!
Thanks
you said “… Then install my custom build of TortoiseCVS, TortoiseCVS-1.11.6-pardini.exe. It is a custom built CVS-HEAD checkout, without many changes.” but your saying there was no new source involved. are you saying a compiliation of CVS HEAD, along with TortoiseSVN makes overlay icons work in Win7 ?
If you’ve made ANY change, then its a change, and needs to be documented or given out so we can reproduce the whole events from the original sources.
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