✨ mhutchie#30 new option retainContextWhenHidden

package.json

@@ -182,6 +182,11 @@
 					],
 					"default": "colour",
 					"description": "Specifies the colour theme of the icon displayed on the Git Graph tab."
+				},
+				"git-graph.retainContextWhenHidden": {
+					"type": "boolean",
+					"default": false,
+					"description": "Controls if the Git Graph View is kept around even when the panel is no longer visible (e.g. moved to background tab)."
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -204,4 +209,4 @@
 		"uglify-js": "^3.4.9",
 		"vscode": "^1.1.28"
 	}
-}
+}

src/config.ts

@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ class Config {
 		return this.workspaceConfiguration.get('tabIconColourTheme', 'colour');
 	}
 
+	public retainContextWhenHidden(): boolean {
+		return this.workspaceConfiguration.get('retainContextWhenHidden', false);
+	}
+
 	public gitPath(): string {
 		let path = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('git').get('path', null);
 		return path !== null ? path : 'git';

src/gitGraphView.ts

@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ export class GitGraphView {
 			enableScripts: true,
 			localResourceRoots: [
 				vscode.Uri.file(path.join(extensionPath, 'media'))
-			]
+			],
+			retainContextWhenHidden: getConfig().retainContextWhenHidden()
 		});
 
 		GitGraphView.currentPanel = new GitGraphView(panel, extensionPath, dataSource, extensionState, avatarManager, repoManager);