Vscode: Popup info: Folder contains emphasized items ?

[Legends]

What does this mean?

[kieferrm]

I'm guessing you're talking about

This hover tells you that there are files and folder below that have decorations of various kinds. In this case 'menus.ts' has git and typescript error decorations.

[kieferrm]

@jrieken FYI

[Legends]

Yeah, that's what I thought of too.
I had green dot on the right side and the folder was green too, only the emphasized items were missing.
Perhaps, my brain played a trick on me or it is something with the IDE. I will come back if it should happen again.
Thanks for the quick response!

[vphantom]

I can reproduce this indefinitely right now with 1.25.1: one main folder has this, in my case orange dot "Contains emphasized items" however nothing in that folder is emphasized, so I have no idea how to get rid of that. :-/

[ali-habibzadeh]

+1

[jrieken]

however nothing in that folder is emphasized, so I have no idea how to get rid of that. :-/

@vphantom Do you have any file/folder excludes configured? What does the SCM viewlet show?

[vphantom]

@jrieken That folder has no pending changes in source control, but it does indeed have a .gitignore file which causes several files and folders to be grayed out in the explorer tree.

[alexmcmillan]

I also have a folder claiming "Contains emphasized items", but all of its descendant files are green. Reloading the window doesn't fix this. Is there any way to determine _which_ items are "emphasized" ?

[nbjgi1]

also keen on a fix

[jrieken]

"Contains emphasized items", but all of its descendant files are green. Reloading the window doesn't fix this. Is there any way to determine which items are "emphasized"

All of the descendant files are meant. The message 'contains emphasized items' is just there to explain the dot, which means there are any kind decorations in the descendants

[alexmcmillan]

@jrieken If I understand you correctly, you are saying that files in green trigger their parent folder to become red with the "Contains Emphasized Items" message?

If so, there seems to be some kind of inconsistency; most of the time I see:

• green: new, untracked files
• orange: files with uncommitted modifications
• red: files with errors

where the folder takes the "highest priority" colouring from the files inside it and shows a dot, while each file takes the appropriate colour and shows either "U" (untracked), "M" (modified), or a number indicating the count of syntax errors...

Have I misunderstood you?

Edit: I see that a folder in orange or green _also_ has the message "Contains Emphasized Items". I guess this issue is about the red coloring more than the message - it really appears the folder is indicating it contains files with errors, but it doesn't.

[jrieken]

Have I misunderstood you?

Yes. The message "Contains Emphasized Items" means that there is any kind of decoration in any of the children. The color of the dot is the one with the highest priority, usually errors or warnings. You can check the problems view for the errors and warnings current known to the editor - it should contain a problem that lives inside that subtree. Iff not check your explorer exclude settings and file a separate issue with steps to reproduce.

[alexmcmillan]

Thank you for your help.

There was nothing in the Problems window, but committing all files "reset" the folder structure to all-white (as expected) and the problem appears resolved. If I come across this again I will open a new issue as you suggest.