Refreshing VCS File Status Information

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The following icons indicate a file's VCS status.

Icon Description
Locally modified badge Locally modified.
Locally removed badge

Locally removed.
Missing.

Merge conflict badge Merge conflict.
Needs checkout badge Needs checkout.
Up-to-date badge

Up-to-date.
Current.

The IDE determines a file's status by using the Refresh command to call the appropriate command in the version control system. Refreshes, particularly on large directories, can take a long time. So, by default, automatic refreshes are done on files only when you expand the node of the folder that contains them. It is a good idea to refresh after major changes in your version control directory structure.

To manually refresh file status information for a file or directory:

To configure automatic refreshing for a VCS filesystem:

Setting a VCS Filesystem to Offline Mode

When a VCS filesystem is in Offline Mode, the IDE does not try to refresh status information for its contents. The IDE guesses the status of files using cache information. You can run VCS commands, including manual refreshes, on VCS filesystems that are in Offline Mode.

To set a VCS filesystem to Offline Mode:

See Also
Calling Version Control Commands
VCS Command Output
Configuring Version Control Settings
VCS Filesystem Properties

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