Temporary "mark" for session files

[ChemistAion]

It would be very useful to have a way to mark certain files (e.g., external/script/action-generated) as "temporary" alike, so they are not treated as modified within a session.

Currently, such files are detected as changed/new and included in the automatic "Save As..." flow, which adds unnecessary chore-noise.

A possible solution would be a dedicated flag or checkbox (e.g., "temporary", "cache", or "volatile" - up to you).
Files marked this way would be excluded from save prompts and session change tracking.

...in my current workflow, I often use a mix of offline-prepared files and files generated via scripting or actions.
Having to manually omit them each time they appear as modified in the "Save As..." dialog becomes tedious.

[houmain]

Hi,
Groups already have a property/checkbox "dynamic". When it is set, everything inside is not saved in the session and is not included in the session change tracking.
When opening and modifying buffers/textures/... inside, the save prompts for them still appear though. Maybe I can prevent the editors of these dynamically created items from popping up and/or prevent the save dialog prompts.

[ChemistAion]

...oopsie - ah, I missed that 😅 thank you for pointing it out; close this for now.

[ChemistAion]

@houmain
I was a bit too fast earlier 😅 I checked it now, and indeed the "Dynamic" flag prevents change tracking as expected, however, as you pointed out, mods (esp. new files created during per-group processing) still trigger save prompts.
...this can become quite repetitive chore, esp. when working with many cache/temporary files.

So yes, disabling or preventing these save dialogs for dynamically created/modified files per group sounds like a very good idea 😌
Alternatively, we could keep "Dynamic" as-is and introduce a second option (e.g.: "Volatile" or "Mutable") to separate this behavior from change tracking - up to you.

[houmain]

preventing these save dialogs for dynamically created/modified files per group sounds like a very good idea

This should work now.

[ChemistAion]

I cannot wait to test it later today 🖖🏻