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Re: [jgit-dev] How to provide IndexChangedEvent?
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On 09.09.11 14:01, "Baumgart, Jens" <jens.baumgart@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>The old GitIndex fired an IndexChangedEvent event. This event is needed
>to react on index changes to update the UI.
>The DirCache implementation does not provide the event (it even does not
>know Repository!)
>Is it possible to extend DirCache to provide the IndexChangedEvent?
>
>Currenty we only get IndexChangedEvents in EGit because
>RepositoryChangeScanner calls
>Repository.scanForRepoChanges and scanForRepoChanges uses
>GitIndex.rereadIfNecessary!
>
> public void scanForRepoChanges() throws IOException {
> getAllRefs(); // This will look for changes to refs
> if (!isBare())
> getIndex(); // This will detect changes in the index
> }
Shouldn't be a problem to teach DirCache.commit() to fire this event.
This should be done in a way so that scanForRepoChanges() doesn't fire
a second event if DirCache already sent it.
--
Matthias
