Re: [Gitclipse-devel] Auto Refresh Provider

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I monitor .git/objects for commit changes.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Case <ac...@co...>

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:32:00 
To: Paul Munson Bethe<pm...@ny...>
Cc: Patrick Winters<pat...@ny...>; gitclipse-devel<git...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Gitclipse-devel] Auto Refresh Provider


.git/HEAD doesn't change unless you switch your branch right?  If you want 
to monitor for commit changes I think you need to poll .git/refs/[branch]. 
I'm not sure about this though.

--
Drew

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Paul Munson Bethe wrote:

> I am not polling the whole tree...  just the .git/HEAD and objects files.
> I am letting the standard eclipse stuff poll the tree.
>
> As I mentioned below, I don't think '.git' has an IResource associated.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Winters <pat...@ny...>
> Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:08 pm
> Subject: Re: Auto Refresh Provider
> To: Paul Munson Bethe <pm...@ny...>
> Cc: gitclipse-devel <git...@li...>
>
>
>> 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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