In the Nova 11 beta the indicators for git changes in the gutter are flickering a lot.
It is not as pronounced in the (gif) recording, because of the lower frame rate, but they flicker heavily.
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Hello Sebastian,
We might need some more information on this.
Is there anything running int he background that might be changing this file (or resaving it, etc.) that might cause the Git indicators to be recalculated from disk?
Does this reproduce with all files, or only specific files? Does it reproduce all the time, or only under specific conditions?
I made a new empty git repo, checked in one file (README.txt), turned off all extensions and still see the flickering. An fs_usage -e -f filesys filtering for the path of the repo shows Nova in a loop like this at least once a second:
10:08:39 getattrlist /Users/jfieber/test 0.000005 Nova
10:08:39 getattrlist /Users/jfieber/test/file 0.000002 Nova
10:08:39 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/info/attributes 0.000002 Nova
10:08:39 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.gitattributes 0.000002 Nova
10:08:39 getattrlist /Users/jfieber/test/README.txt 0.000026 Nova
10:08:40 getattrlist /Users/jfieber/test/README.txt 0.000037 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/HEAD 0.000019 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/HEAD 0.000023 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test/.git/HEAD 0.000048 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test/.git/HEAD 0.000040 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/refs/heads/master 0.000012 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test/.git/refs/heads/master 0.000025 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/refs/heads/master 0.000011 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test/.git/refs/heads/master 0.000025 Nova
10:08:40 access /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/d5/300954b0be240fd01ad40aa45a1c52146e0773 0.000029 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/d5/300954b0be240fd01ad40aa45a1c52146e0773 0.000028 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/d5/300954b0be240fd01ad40aa45a1c52146e0773 0.000038 Nova
10:08:40 access /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/d5/300954b0be240fd01ad40aa45a1c52146e0773 0.000025 Nova
10:08:40 access /Users/jfieber/test/.git/index 0.000005 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/index 0.000009 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/d5/300954b0be240fd01ad40aa45a1c52146e0773 0.000028 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test/.git/index 0.000025 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/config 0.000009 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/d5/300954b0be240fd01ad40aa45a1c52146e0773 0.000067 Nova
10:08:40 access /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/05/27e6bd2d76b45e2933183f1b506c7ac49f5872 0.000015 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/05/27e6bd2d76b45e2933183f1b506c7ac49f5872 0.000017 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.gitignore 0.000004 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/info/exclude 0.000009 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test/.git/objects/05/27e6bd2d76b45e2933183f1b506c7ac49f5872 0.000040 Nova
10:08:40 open /Users/jfieber/test 0.000027 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/file 0.000004 Nova
10:08:40 lstat64 /Users/jfieber/test/README.txt 0.000008 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/info/attributes 0.000003 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.gitattributes 0.000002 Nova
10:08:40 stat64 /Users/jfieber/test/.git/config 0.000007 Nova
No other process show up accessing the folder. It seems to stay in this loop regardless of whether there are any changes, either saved or unsaved. OS is Ventura 13.3, happens on both my work machine (intel) and personal (m2).
Thank you for the reports. We have identified the issue and will have this resolved for the v11 release.
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FYI it’s still flickering but not all the time. For me it’s flickering in two cases now:
- Just after tab change flickers once
- Sometimes when I change caret position
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