TortoiseSVN is a popular open source project that allows users to manage their projects and repositories with ease. However, some users may find it difficult to enable or disable TortoiseSVN menus easily. This article will show you how to do this in a simple and easy-to-follow manner. First, open TortoiseSVN and click on the Preferences button. This will open the Preferences dialog box. In the Preferences dialog box, select the following: The first setting should be set to “Enabled.” The second setting should be set to “No.” The third setting should be set to “Yes.” The fourth setting should be set to “Never.” The fifth setting should be set to “Never.” This will disable all TortoiseSVN menus.
Note: this article is meant for programmers or people pretending to be programmers.
The general idea is that we’ll remove the Windows Explorer context menu items from the registry with one script, and then add the registry entries back with another script.
To make it a little simpler and prevent the annoying Regedit prompts, what you can do is create a shortcut to regedit.exe, pass in the location of the registry hack file we’ve provided, and make sure to use the /s switch for silent mode.
Then put those shortcuts in your Start Menu folder, so you can easily get them from the start menu search.
Or you could create a set of hotkeys to enable or disable them on the fly… if you’re reading this, you’re probably a programmer, so you can figure that out.
The only real magic here is the registry hack files that we’ve already created. Download them!
Download the Enable/Disable TortoiseSVN Registry Hack
