"Detect Changes on Restart" not recommended. Why?

anonymous_user_373a90d1
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:34:00 +0000
Community & Industry Discussion

Hi,

I just upgraded to 4.8 from 4.7 and there’s a new “Detect Changes on Restart” option. However, I was greeted with a warning that the option is not recommended “when working in collaboration with others and using source control”. I can’t make sense of it. My team and I are using Perforce and our workflow is to never sync with the editor open, because of the infamous “sync of death” bug (already reported here), which doesn’t seem to have been addressed in UE4.8 yet. So the case where file changes occur while the editor is closed is normal routine, which definitely requires reimporting changes upon restart. So, why is the option not recommended? I’d say it should be mandatory instead! Reimporting changes on restart should be the default behaviour and there should be no option at all to disable that! I frankly don’t understand what would be the adverse effect that Unreal is warning about. Can anyone clarify this?

Thanks,

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