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"Add to index" triggers entire workspace refresh? [message #1742617]

Tue, 06 September 2016 07:53

Felix Dorner

Messages: 392
Registered: December 2015

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Hi,

I have noticed that "Add to index" of a single file will trigger a refresh of the entire workspace, which makes the whole operation take like 5 seconds or more. Is that normal? Any tips to speed it up? This is on Eclipse Neon/Egit 4.4.1

Thanks,
Felix

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Re: "Add to index" triggers entire workspace refresh? [message #1742622 is a reply to message #1742617]

Tue, 06 September 2016 08:16

Matthias Sohn

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Registered: July 2009

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- from which menu do you invoke "Add to Index"
- how do you detect that the workspace is refreshed ?
- Add to index should update git decorators on the file you run the action but it shouldn'r refresh the workspace

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Re: "Add to index" triggers entire workspace refresh? [message #1742639 is a reply to message #1742622]

Tue, 06 September 2016 09:57

Felix Dorner

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Registered: December 2015

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Hi Matthias,

I invoke it from the staging views Unstaged Changes file list.
I can see the refresh inthe Progress View when "Show system jobs" is enabled in the view preferences.

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Re: "Add to index" triggers entire workspace refresh? [message #1742754 is a reply to message #1742639]

Wed, 07 September 2016 08:10

Felix Dorner

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Registered: December 2015

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I have looked at the stack traces for the refresh jobs and finally found the preference "Refresh Resources when Index Changes", which is causing the refresh. Why would I ever want to enable this preference? Is this just for synchronization when working in the git bash at the same time?

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Re: "Add to index" triggers entire workspace refresh? [message #1743301 is a reply to message #1742754]

Wed, 14 September 2016 08:37

Thomas Wolf

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Registered: August 2016

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See also https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500106 .

It seems that this refresh is triggered:

whenever a repository index is changed via EGit. This is IMO completely superfluous.
whenever an Eclipse window is activated. That bit might have been intended to catch modifications done outside of Eclipse.

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