Is it only me, or is the recent VS Code's fs watcher kinda broken? Many times, the Git status doesn't update until I do a manual refresh. Even changes to files made by scripts don't get updated in the editor unless I close it and reopen it. Extension conflicts or something in the editor itself? - ThreadSky

antfu.me • 25 days ago

Is it only me, or is the recent VS Code's fs watcher kinda broken?

Many times, the Git status doesn't update until I do a manual refresh. Even changes to files made by scripts don't get updated in the editor unless I close it and reopen it.

Extension conflicts or something in the editor itself?

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johnnyreilly.com•24 days ago

Not that, but I have noticed TS refactoring like move function to new file are only sporadically working despite TS and VS Code upgrades

chiubaca.com•24 days ago

yeah been borked for quite some time... I think i noticed it around mid-last year

lancejeffers.bsky.social•25 days ago

Not just you, the git status has been extremely sluggish for me for the past few months

jonathanschndr.de•25 days ago

It is time to switch to @zed.dev 👌

bskyum.bsky.social•24 days ago

Well, vscode's git plugin might be flaky, but zed doesn't really have one :/

bskyum.bsky.social•24 days ago

the moment there's proper git diffs / gitlens like setup in zed, I'll probably switch, because it just so much faster.

fuyuki-bs.bsky.social•24 days ago

Wow thought it was just me, yeah got really slow and sluggish, sometimes I past and can see a loading spinner 🤔
Restating vscode gets it back but appears again after a while

fettstorch.com•24 days ago

I think you can ‘restart without extensions’ (cmd shift p) to quickly check if it has to do something with your extensions

andreapo.bsky.social•23 days ago

I thought it was something broken on my end. Glad to see in not alone 🤣

43081j.com•25 days ago

fingers crossed it isn't me breaking chokidar 😅 (pretty sure they use their own watcher)

jakebailey.dev•25 days ago

They use parcel's watcher, it has a lot of good stuff

bskyum.bsky.social•25 days ago

I see the same.. click that refresh button more often than usually

jakebailey.dev•25 days ago

Maybe try setting

"typescript.tsserver.experimental.useVsCodeWatcher": false

and see if it due to TS requesting watchers from the editor (this is a new future)

antfu.me•24 days ago

It seems to have been renamed to "typescript.tsserver.watchOptions" and somehow the only option is "vscode" 😇

jakebailey.dev•24 days ago

Hmmm, maybe

"typescript.tsserver.watchOptions": {
"watchFile": "dynamicPriorityPolling"
}

baxuz.bsky.social•22 days ago

Huh, I had that previously set up but it seems to be gone.

Not sure why tsserver should impact git file watching.

jakebailey.dev•22 days ago

Shouldn't except to have been asking VS Code to watch files (which should be better!) rather than doing it itself

baxuz.bsky.social•24 days ago

Already had that set up once these issues started.

jakebailey.dev•24 days ago

Ah well, at least it's probably not tsserver then

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