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Bug 368989

Summary:	Indexer should not start after refreshing workspace if "Automatically update the index" is off
Product:	[Tools] CDT	Reporter:	Jonathan Watt <jwatt>
Component:	cdt-core	Assignee:	Markus Schorn <mschorn.eclipse>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	angvoz.dev, cdtdoug, yevshif
Version:	8.1.0
Target Milestone:	8.1.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description Jonathan Watt

2012-01-18 11:31:55 EST

In "C/C++ > Indexer" I've disabled "Automatically update the index". Unfortunately, when I create a new project for existing code and select the source directory, Eclipse refreshes the workspace. That's not a problem in and of itself, but I really, really don't want the indexing to start after it's finished that because the indexer generally takes 20 minutes and causes Eclipse to hang for minutes at a time, and the project hasn't yet been configured so that the indexer can produce useful results in any case.

As well as being annoying for me, this issue unfortunately complicates the wiki document I'm writing on setting up Eclipse for use with the Mozilla source. It's necessary to add instructions on finding and opening the Progress tab, cancelling the Refresh step, and to add text to explain that this is because the indexer will start even though the wiki page previously instructed them to turn off "Automatically update the index".

Comment 1 Markus Schorn

2012-04-04 09:41:16 EDT

Thanks, the initial rebuild of the index will no longer be done, when automatic update is deselected.

Comment 2 CDT Genie

2013-02-27 11:38:55 EST

*** cdt git genie on behalf of Markus Schorn ***

    Bug 368989: Supress initial index rebuild when automatic updates are turned off.

[*] http://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git/commit/?id=ee20d322decea0ad74e962117f37f85b6189e8f5