Refresh mode not working

[HageMaster3108]

Hi,

refresh mode is not working at all right now - using tig 2.0.3 on os x (retrieved via brew).
My .tigrc looks like this:

set refresh-mode = periodic
set refresh-interval = 5

Also tried the "auto" mode.

Tickets #389 and #301 seem to indicate that it is related to large repos? I can't confirm that. I have just setup a clean empty repo with just a single text file and can't get it to work.

Cheers,
Patrick

[geakstr]

Same for me. OS X 10.10.5, git 2.3.2, tig 2.1.1.

[jonas]

Yes, this is definitely broken.

[lehnerpat]

@jonas, is there any way we can provide useful debugging info for this issue?

The auto-refresh would be the "killer feature", as it were, to make me use tig. I'm guessing true "auto" refresh is currently difficult without something like inotify -- periodic refresh would work well enough for me though.

I'm currently on OS X 10.11 with tig-2.1.1 (built Sep 13 2015) (installed via homebrew).

[napcae]

Can confirm, does not work. If I can provide any information, please tell me how.

$ brew info tig
tig: stable 2.1.1 (bottled), HEAD
Text interface for Git repositories
http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
/usr/local/Cellar/tig/2.1.1 (8 files, 428K) *
  Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/tig.rb
==> Dependencies
Recommended: readline ✔
==> Options
--with-docs
        Build man pages using asciidoc and xmlto
--without-readline
        Build without readline support
--HEAD
        Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
Bash completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d

SystemInformation:

$ archey

                 ###                  User: napcae
               ####                   Hostname: butterfinger
               ###                    Distro: OS X 10.11.1
       #######    #######             Kernel: Darwin
     ######################           Uptime: 11:09  up 5 days,  8:41, 1 user, load averages: 2,19 2,16 2,18
    #####################             Shell: /bin/bash
    ####################              Terminal: screen-256color iTerm.app
    ####################              Packages: 149
    #####################             CPU: Intel Core i5-4258U CPU @ 2.40GHz
     ######################           Memory: 8 GB
      ####################            Disk: 95%
        ################              Battery: 54,27%
         ####     #####               

tigrc:

$ less ~/.tigrc
      1 set refresh-mode = auto
/Users/napcae/.tigrc (END)

[sevagh]

Is this only an OSX problem? Refresh doesn't seem to be working for me on Linux (Fedora).

[geakstr]

@jonas, can you indicate where this functionality implemented in sources? I can try to research this problem.

[vaygr]

Can confirm that's still valid for 2.2.1 on Linux.

[jonas]

Yes, didn't get around to looking at this issue yet.

[sevagh]

If you could give me a clue on where to start looking in the source code, I'd like to attempt a fix.

[jonas]

@sevagh That would be great. The main logic is inside src/watch.c

[mnarrell]

Any update here?

[spytheman]

I've just made a pull request for this issue: #591 .

[frontsideair]

Can we get a release too? ☺️

[jonas]

@frontsideair The fix has been release in https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/tag/tig-2.2.2

[timotheecour]

/cc @jonas @HageMaster3108

could we reopen?

this doesn't work reliably at all. It seems to work for the 1st 2 or so edits, then doesn't refresh when a file is updated again.

tig --version
tig version 2.3.3

Distro: OS X 10.13.3

I tried both:
set refresh-mode = auto
and
set refresh-mode = periodic
set refresh-interval = 5

maybe it's a dup of #389 ? in any case, seems broken

NOTE that F5 works

[jonas]

@timotheecour Please create a new issue.