TortoiseSVN file overlay performance - are there any ways of improving it?

Question

I\'m using TortoiseSVN on my development machine (running Windows Server 2003) and VisualSVN Server on the server side. Both are the latest versions (against Subversion 1.6.5).<

Answer 1

By far the biggest performance increase I got was to set the client's Icon Overlays to not process the whole hard drive, only the locations my SVN files live in.

To do this, open the settings (right-click in Explorer->TortoiseSVN->Settings), select Icon Overlays, then in the Exclude paths: enter c:\*

In the Include paths: enter the paths to your Subversion working copy directories (for me all are under c:\subversion\* and c:\workspaces\*)

Use a newline to separate entries (see screenshot)

This made the client seem a thousand times quicker.

This screenshot shows how to exclude c: and d: drives, just including the relevant directories:

You can get some more performance tips from the TortoiseSVN docs.