I’m seeing red dots against certain directories in the left file viewer. Hovering the pointer over the red dot shows the label ‘contains missing files’. This doesn’t make sense - if a file is missing, how can it be ‘contained’ by a folder?
How do I get rid of these annoying red dots?
Sublime Text build 4126
The answer given in that post is:
“That means that there’s a deleted file in git, ie. a file that has previous been staged/committed and is now no longer present.”
I don’t understand the concept of a deleted file being “in git”, or contained within a folder. If a file has been deleted, it no longer exists, so how can it be “in” anything?
Unless it means that a file exists in a previous commit to a repository, but no longer exists in the latest commit. But this is a normal part of the development process, so why would I need to be warned about that by a red dot?
It means, there is an uncommitted change, that file has been deleted. That indicator will go away once these changes have been committed. It is to give you a visual indicator that a file was deleted
This is no different than git. Telling you you have a deleted file that is not yet been committed.
I have everything committed, and ‘working tree clean’. Yet I still get 3 red dots against 3 directories
Then it’s likely a bug. Does it happen when you start Sublime in safe mode and open that directory?