Force Update Git internals when Refreshing Explorer

[ggedde]

Currently, I still get occasional issues in the Explorer with GIT either not graying out ignored files or still showing files as modified even though I committed them. The only solution for this is to close the project and re-open it.

While this is not a full solution to the issues above I would love to be able to just click on the "Refresh Explorer" button and have it also refresh the GIT checks as if I closed and re-opened the project. Maybe entirely reloading GIT for the project would be best. Honestly, I did this originally, thinking that this would have worked, but it does not.

This should also refresh GIT checks on all open documents as many times it will still show the title as modified or the gutter and minimap markers for modified lines even though everything is committed.

There are many open issues that this might help with.
#70963
#239690
#238798

[lszomoru]

@ggedde, when you are running into this issue have you tried the "Git: Refresh" action in the command palette or the "Refresh" action in the "Changes" view? It would be great if you could give this a try and let me know if it resolves the issue. Refreshing the Source Control view is driven by file system events so in case these events are not correctly emitted we will fail to update the state of the Source Control view.

[ggedde]

@lszomoru, I feel like I did, but it has been awhile, so I will try and remember to do that next time and report back.
Thanks,

[ggedde]

@lszomoru I just tried this and it did not work.
I added some vscode settings which added the .vscode folder with settings.json
I decided not to commit it so then I added .vscode to my gitignore.
I did notice that my other ignored files went solid for a half a second then back to grayed out, but .vscode folder was still solid.
So I tried "Git: Refresh" and nothing happened.
Then I tried:

git rm -rf --cache .
git add --all
git commit -m 'Cleared Caches'

Nothing happened.
Then tried "Git: Refresh" again and nothing happened.

So then I closed the project and re-opened it and Vualah! .vscode folder and settings.json were grayed out.

So I still don't know how to do this without closing the project. There must be some sort of Git Status Cache or something that needs to be cleared. It should be cleared on "Git: Refresh" and on clicking the "Refresh Explorer" button.

PS, the only time when my gitignore files goes solid for half a second and then back to grayed out is when I make changes to my .gitignore file and save it. This does not happen when I run "Git: Refresh" or click on the "Refresh Explorer" button or run any git commands in the terminal. Not sure if that is useful.

Thanks

[lszomoru]

@ggedde, thank you! I will take a look and will try to reproduce the issue. For the record the "Git: Refresh" command refreshes the state of the Source Control viewlet, and not the Explorer. I will see if there is anything that we can do to refresh the Explorer. I will keep you posted.