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If an ecore file and its aird are committed to GIT, then a checkout of an earlier state results in their deletion, unhelpful popups appear (Bug 1: the popup does not support text copy) Bug 2: the popup: "Close the representations file?" "The ...aird file has been externally deleted, should we remove it and lose changes?" is unhelpful. The aird file is not open, there are no changes to lose, just the normal change of state for the new GIT. This is all totally unnecessary since the normal GIT guard against dirty files should work for aird files just the same as java files.
Technically the "aird" file is opened (well, in the sense "loaded" at least), and there are non-standard configurations where such operations could cause changes to be lost; it would probably never happen outside of Sirius-based products which explicitly enabled these configurations. But I agree the popup is at best poorly worded and probably unnecessary in the vast majority of cases, and we should try to be smarter in detecting when it's really needed or not.
(In reply to Ed Willink from comment #0) > (Bug 1: the popup does not support text copy) See Bug 505709. (In reply to Pierre-Charles David from comment #1) > there are non-standard configurations where such operations > could cause changes to be lost Easy to say, but if you have non-standard configurations that require non-standard behavior, it may be appropriate to revisit the rationale of the non-standard configurations. Once you start fighting the standard Eclipse workflow, an ever increasing number of facilities start to malfunction. It seems to me that if you have a, hopefully very lazy, automatic AIRD open, you should also have an automatic AIRD close so that the AIRD is closed when Eclipse expects normal functionality.
(In reply to Ed Willink from comment #0) > "The ...aird file has > been externally deleted, should we remove it and lose changes?" A very similar problem occurs if a GIT Rebase Interactive undermines the uninterrupted existence of a *.aird file.
