SVN commands does not appear in context menu

Question

I\'ve just downloaded and installed SVN Tortoise, but no commands appear on the menu. How is that possible?

Answer 1

There is a long list of reasons why TSVN isnt working in your case. Your best bet is to have a look at the TortoiseSVN support list, failing that post a message to the list - they are a frendly bunch.

Ouch, looks like I cant post links yet - go to google-groups and look for TortoiseSVN, there are two lists tortoisesvn-dev and tortoisesvn, dont ask on the dev list you will be kindly asked to ask on the 'user' list

Answer 2

Whatever I did - install/uninstall/reinstall/repair - nothing worked. Only after installing WANDisco Subversion Tortoise also started working.

Answer 3

If you miss your overlay icons, the regular 'SVN Update' and 'SVN Commit' commands, but instead have a 'SVN Upgrade working copy' command, you should click on it. The reason it appears is that TortoiseSVN has been upgraded and the working copy format has changed. This must from 1.7+ be upgraded manually. This will bring your commands and overlay-icons back.

Answer 4

I had the problem with my total commander and uninstall/reinstall several times, but the real "problem" is tortoise settings. From http://shalom.craimer.org/info/tech-journal/articles/653/The-context-menu-and-icons-for-TortoiseSVN-dont-appear-in-Total-Commander-but-the-do-appear-in-Windows-Explorer.-Why.html

• "Repair" in the TortoiseSVN's installer
• Restart
• In the TortoiseSVN settings (right-click in Explorer and select "Settings..." under "TortoiseSVN" in the context menu) -> "Icon Overlays" uncheck the checkbox labelled "Show overlays and context menus only in explorer."

Answer 5

Repair install fixed the problem.

Answer 6

I experienced the problem of 'no context menu' after upgrading from 1.5 to 1.6 version. After first re-instal I had a new problem: 'no tortoise icons'. I re-installed again tortoise 1.6.16 build 21511.

After reboot everything works properly. I have a win-32bit machine under XP.