100s of thousands of hgtstatus files

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Dylan Cuthbert
>
> We've been using tortoiseHg for a while on a large repo and happened to
> look in the .hg directory to find 100s of thousands of hgtstatus files
> from the icon overlay system.  In Win7 the directory was barely
> openable.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this behaviour and is the only way to get rid of it
> to turn off the icon overlay - we calculated that it must have been
> writing out a new file four times a minute for 3 months to get that
> many.

I can only speak of THG 2.9.1, and only about a repo of ca. 700MB store size. With this I've never seen the effect you described. Overlays are on and working in the range of expectation (Windows Explorer overlays never worked 100% right for me, no matter what tool it was) and no "hgtstatus" file is observed. There is a "thgstatus" file (which I guess you meant), but I've always seen only one and not many of them, let alone hundreds of thousands.

Regards,
Fritz



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