How To Add a System Tray Icon For TortoiseSVN

February 27, 2008

TortoiseSVN is arguably the best SVN client for Windows, my favorite for sure. The only negative aspect he program comes with is that TSVNCache.exe becomes very large in memory over time. This process keeps a cached state of your folders under source code control.

There is a way of putting an icon in the system tray which allows you to gracefully exit this app from time to time, not allowing it to get that large. This trick is documented in the hidden registry features of TortoiseSVN.

Fairly simple if you know your way around the registry. All you have to do is create a DWORD value under "HKCU\Software\TortoiseSVN\CacheTrayIcon" and set it to 1.

Presto! A System tray icon.