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When is the staging view updated? [message #1468189]

Mon, 10 November 2014 16:52

Ernesto Posse

Messages: 381
Registered: March 2011

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I noticed that the staging view, the unstaged changes list doesn't get refreshed automatically when some change is made (e.g. deleting a file) and it can take up to a minute or two before the changes are shown, while on the command-line doing a 'git status' will show the changes right away.

When does EGit refresh the staging view? is there a way to manually refresh the staging view?

Thanks

PS: I'm using EGit 3.4.1 on Luna SR1 4.4.1.

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Re: When is the staging view updated? [message #1468591 is a reply to message #1468189]

Tue, 11 November 2014 00:18

Matthias Sohn

Messages: 1072
Registered: July 2009

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The staging view is updated based on Eclipse resourceChanged events, so it should refresh automatically and instantaneously
if changes are done in Eclipse and the changed files are contained in an Eclipse project. Files not in a project are not seen
by the Eclipse resource model hence no events are fired. If you change files outside of Eclipse , e.g. using another editor
also no change events are triggered by Eclipse. EGit has a background thread (class RepositoryChangeScanner) checking
for changes every 10 seconds. If this thread detects changes it should also update the staging view.

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Re: When is the staging view updated? [message #1470339 is a reply to message #1468591]

Wed, 12 November 2014 09:00

Felix Dorner

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Registered: March 2012

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On 11/11/2014 01:18, Matthias Sohn wrote:
> The staging view is updated based on Eclipse resourceChanged events, so
> it should refresh automatically and instantaneously
> if changes are done in Eclipse and the changed files are contained in an
> Eclipse project. Files not in a project are not seen
> by the Eclipse resource model hence no events are fired. If you change
> files outside of Eclipse , e.g. using another editor
> also no change events are triggered by Eclipse. EGit has a background
> thread (class RepositoryChangeScanner) checking
> for changes every 10 seconds. If this thread detects changes it should
> also update the staging view.
>

There's also a little refresh icon in the top right corner of the view.
I find myself using this at times too.

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