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Sublime Merge doesn't update automatically for repositories inside WSL2

#1

Hi! I recently purchased Sublime Merge and I’ve been enjoying it. However, it’s been annoying having to manually refresh when working with a WSL folder on Windows 11. When I use Sublime Merge on macOS or native Ubuntu it works fine, but mixing the Windows version of Sublime Merge with the Linux filesystem seems to cause problems.

I am working with a Git repository that exists inside the Ubuntu WSL filesystem in Windows 11.

Is there any way to get Sublime Merge to auto-refresh? VS Code and JetBrains products seem to successfully watch the Windows Subsystem for Linux filesystem, so I think it’s possible.

Sublime Text also works poorly with the WSL2 filesystem. Deleting files doesn’t work and it doesn’t watch the filesystem. I think fixing this bug in Merge could also fix it in Text.

Thanks!

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#2

WSL filesystems mounted to Windows don’t support filesystem notifications, so there’s no way to actually watch those files. Implementing polling as a fallback is unfortunately the only solution to this.

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#3

Tragic. I guess I’ll go complain to Microsoft.
Thanks for the response.

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