kate stopped warning about changed files (but only C++ files)

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dissabte, 22 de febrer de 2020, a les 13:51:39 CET, Sven Brauch va escriure:
> On Saturday, 22 February 2020 12:48:57 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > Wow, is there a way I can disable this trying-to-be-smart behaviour?
> > > 
> > > Currently only by building without libgit2 it seems.
> > > 
> > > In what case do you find this behaviour undesirable?
> > 
> > Always?
> 
> The original reason for adding this behaviour was that opening 25 files and 
> then switching branches without changing any of them gives you lots of useless 
> warnings. This problem is neatly solved by the current behaviour.
> 
> > Or to rephrase, why does it matter whether the file is in git or not to tell
> > me that some changes i had made will be lost?
> 
> I'm not sure if you have fully understood what the feature does. In no case 
> will changes you made be lost. Kate checks if *the exact contents of the file 
> before reload* are stored in version control and only reloads in that case.


edit file
git commit -a
git reset --hard origin/master
the file contents are gone.

Yes i know that i did a git reset, but up to now kate always kept things for me, so I'm used to do that and then salvage the files i actually wanted to keep.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> So, if you e.g. make changes without committing them and then run "git reset 
> --hard", kate *will* ask you before reloading the file. If you make no changes 
> and switch branches, it will not. If you make changes, commit them and then 
> switch branches, it will also not ask.
> 
> Greetings,
> Sven
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