TortoiseHg: problems with overlay icons (Windows)?

Question

MyTortoiseHg icons for Windows Explorer are often out of order for unknown reasons. To fix this, I need to update the icons in the folder, which, it seems to me, are not suitable for several folders at once.

This is annoying because I often work on a lot of projects right away and would like to be able to rely on TortoiseHg to help me understand which projects need to be completed.

Does anyone else see the same problems? Has anyone figured out something to fix or fix the problem?

Answer 1

I usually keep the repository root open on the command line to make a quick hg st or even better than thg stat to get a visual overview of what needs to be done, if any. In addition, thg commit allows you to choose what you want to commit and see their differences on the go. Relying on icons and browsing folders one by one, it is bulky and prone to human errors.

Answer 2

You can check out this post and see if it helps? There will be a limited number of Windows overlays.

TortoiseSVN Icons Not Displaying in Windows 7

Answer 3

I know this behavior, but I don't mind / don't care.
In general, I rarely look at overlay icons, I still have a Workbench and that's it.

It all depends on one point of view. For you, TortoiseHg's behavior is annoying because you want to rely on overlay icons.
The other extreme (was?) TortoiseSvn. When I last used it (about two years ago), it had a background resource process that constantly updated all the icons.
It was annoying for me at that time because it was noticeably slowing down my machine (yes, you could change it somewhere in the settings, but by default it was a resource-hogging).

No matter how they do it, someone will always complain :-)

Answer 4

You can disable and enable overlays on the Icon tab of the TortoiseHg shell configuration that worked for me