Loads of "[status] checking repository 'foo'" messages

[kpturner]

The extension is continually spewing out these messages and, as they appear in the footer of VS code, it is very visually disturbing. What is happening here?

[ivanhofer]

Hi,
these status messages appear whenever the git-assistant extension detects a change in your repository. It watches for changes in your /.git path. When a change is detected, it makes some checks and tries to understand what has changed. While that happens, it will show the "check repository" message in the statusbar.

[kpturner]

I’m not sure that explains it. There are uncommitted changes in the repo but it hasn’t been touched for days due to other priorities. That means that thousands of these status messages have been generated. Surely that’s not right? If the footer is going to flash these messages continually while there are uncommitted changes it’s going to be too distracting to use.

[ivanhofer]

Can you please share the log the extension generates?
Just click on the "checking repository" in the status bar and copy everything you see in it. (you can remove private information e.g. repository names or file paths in error-stacks, if you want)

[kpturner]

Unfortunately the MacBook which had this problem has rebooted itself after an update and when I open the repo in VS Code the problem is no longer occurring. But there was not much to see other than what I have documented on here, i.e. endless instances of the
[status] checking repository '<repo name>'"
in the log and therefore the same message continually flashing up in the status bar.

[ivanhofer]

it could be that there are still some issues when the extension runs for a few days in row or if your macbook goes into idle state. Its a small issue, that can be solved by restarting VS Code.
Please close this issue, if this only happend once for you. If this happens again, you can reopen the issue and attach a log. Without a log, I can't really investigate this issue.
Thanks

[thirschbuechler]

I seem to have the same issue, not on a macbook.
Maybe the internal timer gets destroyed if an exception happens? (see .txt file and screenshot)

branch-notfound.txt

[thirschbuechler]

looking through my git log, packed-refs might also be an issue - might trigger a silent exception and cause the "checking repository" update loop as well

microsoft/vscode#79776