Re: [Gitclipse-devel] Auto Refresh Provider

[Patrick W. <pat...@ny...>]

But we shouldn't have to poll the filesystem to be aware of a commit.
All Git operations should notify the workspace or our plugin to refresh
automatically.  Right?
--
Patrick

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 16:54 -0400, Paul Munson Bethe wrote:
> I tried using that, but I don't think it does what you think it does (that was part of my 2 days).
> 
> If you can figure out how to use this instead, you are welcome...  
> but I think the idea for it was if you had a better method than file-system polling.
> 
> But you see, when you commit a file, that file does not change.  So hitting refresh does nothing.
> And since the .git/ is a meta-file, it is not treated as an IResource...
> That is why I went the route I did.
> 
> -P
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Winters <pat...@ny...>
> Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:48 pm
> Subject: Auto Refresh Provider
> To: gitclipse-devel <git...@li...>, Paul Munson Bethe <pm...@ny...>
> 
> 
> > Paul,
> >   I found this just now after I saw your DotGitMonitor.  You can define
> > a RefreshProvider in the framework that auto-polls resources and
> > subdirectories and handles changes.
> > 
> > http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/core/resources/refresh/RefreshProvider.html
> > --
> > Patrick
> > 
> >