ChangeProvider.getChanges() receiving requests for ignored files

Hello Marcus,

I'm currently giving a hand to Gary Evesson with MercurialIDEA, and
I've identified a strange situation where IDEA calls getChanges() on
our change provider with dirty files whose FilePath's have a null
VirtualFile.

Apparently these are files ignored by IDEA (matching the "Ignore Files
and Folders" global option), so my solution is simply ignore them as
well, but I wonder why IDEA is calling my change provider with those
files in the first place.

No, this happens in a different case: a FilePath with a null VirtualFile
means that you're asked to update the status for a locally deleted file.

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Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
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No, this happens in a different case: a FilePath with a null VirtualFile
means that you're asked to update the status for a locally deleted file.

Hmm, strange then. I've debugged this case, and when I looked at the FilePaths, they were all existing files under .hg (which is ignored in General Settings). Maybe something else is making IDEA think they were deleted?

Nevermind. I checked again, and .hg isn't ignored in the sandbox (I forgot the debugging sandbox doesn't inherit the settings from the main installation). I think I have an idea why IDEA thinks they were deleted: repository files are never changed by hg; before changing any repository files, hg writes a new version in a temporary file, then overwrites the old file with the new version, atomically. Maybe this is what's causing IDEA to report these files as locally deleted?

Edited by: Marcus Brito on Apr 16, 2008 1:53 PM

Hello Marcus,

>> No, this happens in a different case: a FilePath with a null
>> VirtualFile means that you're asked to update the status for a
>> locally deleted file.
>>

Hmm, strange then. I've debugged this case, and when I looked at the
FilePaths, they were all existing files under .hg (which is ignored in
General Settings). Maybe something else is making IDEA think they were
deleted?

Hmm. Looks like a bug then. :) If you can reproduce this, please file a JIRA
issue with steps to reproduce (I can look at the Mercurial plugin if that's
needed).

--
Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"

Hmm. Looks like a bug then. :) If you can reproduce this, please file a JIRA
issue with steps to reproduce (I can look at the Mercurial plugin if that's
needed).

Hello Dmitry,

Apparently the NNTP gateway doesn't pick up edits, so here's what I've found after I made the original post:

I checked again, and .hg isn't ignored in the sandbox (I forgot the debugging sandbox doesn't inherit the settings from the main installation). I think I have an idea why IDEA thinks they were deleted: repository files are never changed by hg; before changing any repository files, hg writes a new version in a temporary file, then overwrites the old file with the new version, atomically. Maybe this is what's causing IDEA to report these files as locally deleted?