Trigger database rebuild

[csholmq]

After looking at #415 (comment) I found the new location for the database file. But this leads me to two questions:

1. What triggers a rebuild of the database? According to Browse database doesn't clear when there's a configuration change #262, it's not triggered by changes in c_cpp_properties.json. This is also the case for adding entries to files.exclude where I have to manually delete the database to have it take effect.
2. How do I trigger a rebuild manually (besides deleting the database that is)? The only command I found was Unload Language Server which doesn't seem to do much.

[sean-mcmanus]

The database doesn't rebuild, other than via manually deleting or renaming it. It's a known problem we would like to fix. I've also never seen "Unload Language Server" have any effect.

[csholmq]

It appears that modifying or deleting the c_cpp_properties.json triggers a rebuild. At least for me. Is this by design?

[sean-mcmanus]

It just re-does what it usually does when the workspace is first opened (searches for new files to add to the database, potentially parsing them), but it doesn't remove stuff from the database yet. Also, ideally it would only trigger a rebuild when a setting that requires a rebuild changes, i.e. changing the intelliSenseMode shouldn't trigger a rebuild. Was there a reason you did not want a "rebuild"?

[csholmq]

Oh, I see. Because removing an include path did break stuff.

[csholmq]

As per your question, I was positively surprised. Sorry if it sounded as if it was something negative.

[bobbrow]

We just released 0.12.3 which added a new command to reset the database.