Disabling auto refresh in history view

Hello lstahlm,

I mentioned this in a post last month, but did not get any clear
response. I've implemented VcsHistoryProvider in my plugin, and it
works fine overall. The problem I have with it is its automatic
refreshing of revisions, specifically on focus changes. I really
would rather it not do that. It was suggested to override
VcsHistorySession#allowAsyncRefresh, but it doesn't seem to matter
whether that method returns true or false.

So essentially what I want is to only allow refresh of the revisions
when the user presses the refresh button. Is this possible?

Yes. Pressing the Refresh button doesn't actually call VcsHistorySession.refresh()
- rather, it gets a whole new session and initializes the dialog from it.
Thus, all you need to do in order to disable automatic refresh is to return
false from your refresh() method.

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Dmitry Jemerov
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Thanks, Dmitry. I will try this.