Why do the overlay icons sometimes show the wrong status?
Sometimes you find that the overlays don’t reflect the real status of files and/or folders. Usually, hitting the F5 key is enough to make the overlays appear correctly. The treeview on the left side of Explorer is a whole other story. It won’t update the overlays, no matter how many times you hit the F5 key. That’s a problem with Explorer and outside of TortoiseCVS’s reach. A short explanation: The treeview always shows the whole Explorer tree, including network drives and other namespace extensions. Since these can be very slow (e.g. slow network drives), Explorer doesn’t ask the overlay extensions for updated overlays all the time. Even if you tell Explorer that a folder has changed and it should update the overlays accordingly, it doesn’t do so. It first checks itself if the folder really has changed and only updates the overlays if it thinks the folder really has changed. Now, since the CVS status of a folder has nothing to do with the folder itself, the folder itself never really
