Polling gist repo every 5 mins to detect change when Auto-download enabled

[allenyllee]

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Suppose I have 2 PCs, called "HOME-PC" and "WORK-PC", both have VScode opened. When I worked on WORK-PC, change some settings and upload (by auto-upload), I have no way to notify HOME-PC to do the download (because auto-download only trigger on vscode startup).

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I think the auto-download function should polling the gist repo every 5 mins to detect changes, if there are changes, then just download it.

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[Will-W]

5 minutes might be overkill. For my use case (very similar to @allenyllee) 'once an hour' would be easily sufficient.

The problem is when you have two long running VSCode instances on two different machines (home and work), the sequence is:

• Change settings on HOME
• Go to work - forget about changes that I might have made several days previously, so I haven't manually called download
• Change settings on WORK
• Get the Gist has newer or identical version of your settings message. Have to decide which setting I'm keeping (usually, force download then reapply whatever I just changed)

The time interval is effectively 'how quickly am I going to go from one machine I'm configuring to another'. Possibly configurable, default to a long interval (so not too much unnecessary work) and let people who switch machines rapidly configure a shorter interval.

[allenyllee]

@Will-W Well, but actually I have two PC in my work place, one is Windows and the other is Ubuntu. I constantly switching between them. So I think 5 minutes is acceptable, 1 hr is too long.