rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Pauseing the world with on-going git operations
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- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
While doing bigger git operations like rebasing, checkout etc. A bunch of files get deleted, moved, changed and added which quite often confuses r-a (and even causes it to panic in some configurations), it might be interesting to look into whether we can pause r-a while git is keeping the lockfile and unpause once git is done with it.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by investigating rust-analyzer's handling of filesystem changes during rebase, checkout, and other larger Git operations, using the referenced pull request as context. The work is done when rust-analyzer reliably pauses while Git holds the lockfile and resumes after the operation completes, without confusion or panics.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100