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project.py: request users to stop IDEs before running west init #703

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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions src/west/app/project.py
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Expand Up @@ -153,6 +153,16 @@ def __init__(self):
branch will be used, if it exists.

With neither, -m {MANIFEST_URL_DEFAULT} is assumed.

Warning: 'west init' renames and/or deletes temporary files inside the
workspace being created. This fails on some filesystems when some
development tool or any other program is trying to read/index these
temporary files at the same time. For instance, it is required to stop
Visual Studio Code before running 'west init` on the Windows NTFS
filesystem. Find other, similar "Access is denied" examples in west
issue #558.
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filesystem. Find other, similar "Access is denied" examples in west
issue #558.
filesystem. Find other, similar "Access is denied" examples in
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/west/issues/558.

Most terminals make links clickable these days, so this is worth spelling out, IMO

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I considered this but I tried to minimize the length as much as possible. In fact I was a bit reluctant to add this at all because a help text should be really concise and not turn into a changelog or bug list. However this particular bug seems frequent, fatal and totally unfixable.

This is not required on inode-based, Linux filesystems that wait and
finalize the deletion until there is no concurrent user left.
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requires_workspace=False)

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