On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:21:05 -0700 (PDT) vitalije <vitali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As I wrote in this comment > <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/514#issuecomment-315608480>, > I had a serious trouble with this branch pollution thing. > My advice is never to develop two separate branches in the same > folder. Every branch deserves its own folder. At least this is true > when using Leo with cache enabled, especially if using sqlite-leo > version of Leo. > > I plan to investigate this thoroughly and until (if ever) I really > understand what and how can possibly go wrong, I would keep all > branches in dedicated folders. > Vitalije This may be the safest policy, but I've never had trouble in my probably more limited branch switching in Leo (with caching). As long as Leo's refresh from disk code works reasonably and as long as you **always say yes to all** when Leo prompts for reload on external changes, it doesn't seem like there should be a problem. As soon as you skip saying "yes to all", there's a possibility that Leo's loaded copy is from a different branch, and anything that occurs to cause it to be saved causes cross branch copying, in effect. I've probably done much less branch switching than you two, Edward and Vitalije, but apart from the quite reasonable (although very detrimental) cross branch contamination arising from the above lack of yes to all, it seems there shouldn't be a problem unless reloading or caching isn't working correctly. There might be some related issues like what to do if you don't reload a file when Leo asks, then cause it to be written later - should Leo remind you again it doesn't match the disk copy? Probably best if it did. Particularly seeing Leo's realtime checking for external changes can be switched off for slow filesystems etc. Cheers -Terry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
