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Bug 358650

Summary:	Automatic History view updating should not block UI thread
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	amj87.iitr, daniel_megert, jamesblackburn+eclipse, matthias.sohn, Olivier_Thomann, remy.suen, stephan.herrmann
Version:	1.1
Target Milestone:	2.0-M1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Markus Keller

2011-09-22 15:20:18 EDT

1.1.0.201109151100-r

The EGit History view implementation is blocking the UI thread too often. When the view is open and "Link with Editor and Selection" is enabled, I cannot work normally any more, e.g. switching editors as I like.

The refresh of the view must be implemented in a way that doesn't interfere with normal user actions. When I e.g. open 4 editors from a Git project and then use Ctrl+PageUp/Down to switch between them, I often have to wait for several seconds, especially if I want to jump by 2 or more tabs.

The Eclipse CVS implementation does not exhibit such delays.

Comment 1 Ayushman Jain

2011-09-29 13:05:52 EDT

I have observed many more problems when the "Link with editor.." is enabled. Saving a java file hangs the UI, so does adding/removing/skip all breakpoints. I switched off "link with edtor" and things returned to normal. (I have had these issues even without the History view open though).

Comment 2 James Blackburn

2011-09-29 15:39:28 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)

See also: bug 323839 & bug 358898.  Egit has some very heavy-weight resource change handlers that lock-up the IDE easily.

Comment 3 Matthias Sohn

2012-03-13 19:57:38 EDT

merged as 325bde8c198119a5601bf9d9e873f59ae0b4e3c0