Review Request: Ask the user whether to clean DUChain repository after multiple crashes.

[David Nolden]

> On March 8, 2011, 3:53 p.m., Milian Wolff wrote:
> > while personally I might have use for this dialog, I think it's not good for end users.
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> > Any crash of kdevelop might screw up the internal duchain state and lead to random crashes (yes, that happens very often).
> > Wiping the cache is the only solution here and hence it should stay. Maybe make this configurable (hidden option without UI) so developers can enable this.
> > 
> > bye

But the good thing about the dialog is that it gives the user a hint of what's going on. It looks a bit odd when the application crashes 3 times in a row and then suddenly it works again without an obvious reason.


- David


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On March 8, 2011, 2:25 p.m., Dmitry Risenberg wrote:
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> (Updated March 8, 2011, 2:25 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDevelop.
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> Summary
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> Got bitten by the code in ItemRepositoryRegistry::open a few times while debugging, when my repository was cleaned and total reparsing was made. The patch adds a message box which allows the user to choose between cleaning the repository and leaving it as is.
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> The bigger question - is this code still useful? I haven't experienced any DUChain-related crashes, while crashes for other reasons still happen. So the user might get a full reparsing if some other part of KDevelop misbehaves.
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> Diffs
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>   language/duchain/repositories/itemrepository.cpp e603b222330faf994525837e8d0d3c3931dd61c4 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100822/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Dmitry
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