Re: [Gitclipse-devel] Auto Refresh Provider

[Andrew C. <ac...@co...>]

Can't we just poll .git/refs/heads/[branch] (doesn't javagit have an 
option for this)?

--
Drew


On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Patrick Winters wrote:

> Still, if we need to detect user operations outside eclipse can't we
> offer a RefreshProvider for the .git resources?  Do we still need to
> poll the entire project tree?
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 16:58 -0400, Paul Munson Bethe wrote:
>> OK - but we would still need this or similar to detect user operations outside eclipse.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Patrick Winters <pat...@ny...>
>> Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:56 pm
>> Subject: Re: Auto Refresh Provider
>> To: Paul Munson Bethe <pm...@ny...>
>> Cc: gitclipse-devel <git...@li...>
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>
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