Pull Request view automatically refreshes when the local repository is changed

[SimonGustavsson]

Versions

• GitHub Extension for Visual Studio version: 2.8.1.7307
• Visual Studio version: 15.9.4

What happened

Commits to the local repository refreshes the view of a Pull Request. This is especially annoying when viewing very large pull requests and working on rectifying comments as the expand/collapse state and position in the "Changed files"-tree is lost after the automatic refresh of the PR.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open up the details of an existing pull request (say, feature1 --> master).
2. Checkout another branch locally, say feature2.
3. Commit any change to the feature2 branch locally.

Expected behavior

Local repository changes should not affect the pull request details view.

Additional context

In my case, I was looking through a pr from feature1 into master. And rectifying issues highlighted in the PR in a branch based off of feature1. I don't believe there's any need to refresh this view quite so eagerly.

[jcansdale]

Hi @SimonGustavsson,

Thanks for opening this issue. I agree we should be smarter about how and when we refresh the pull request details. At the moment the pull request details is a monolithic object that gets refreshed as a whole. It should be broken up into multiple components that can be loaded incrementally and refreshed only when needed.

Unfortunately this isn't a small task, but it's good to have an example of some user pain to motivate us to tackle it!