[FEATURE] Skipping restart with this git trick ?

[luzpaz]

Per @sgrogan in https://github.com/looooo/freecad.gears/issues/1#issuecomment-537256864

I think something like this, from FreeCAD python console, should work?

import git
repo = git.Repo(FreeCAD.getUserAppDataDir()+'/Mod/FCGear')
repo.git.pull('origin','develop')
repo.git.checkout('develop')
import importlib
importlib.reload(pygears)

EDIT: no restart required PY3.4+

[sgrogan]

only the import importlib importlib.reload(pygears) is necessary. The other stuff is to checkout a development branch of the repo instead of master.

[luzpaz]

Related: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=29805

[luzpaz]

@wmayer does https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/commit/0bbc253ddee6801770c78e011c5201b7c2c36080 have any relevance to this feature request? (ignoring the 'git trick' referenced in this ticket, I mean the ability to not requiring a FreeCAD restart)

[wwmayer]

No.

[chennes]

I'm going to close this as "Not planned" -- avoiding restarts when major changes are made is not a high enough priority to keep open: it's never going to be as reliable as just restarting FreeCAD.