fix: Stopping Play Mode no longer shows Unity's modified-externally Scene dialog after a git change - #3052
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With Auto Refresh enabled, a Scene file changed while no focus return followed (during Play Mode, or while the Editor stayed focused) was imported by Unity right after Play Mode ended. Unity then raised its "modified externally" dialog, which blocked control-play-mode --action Stop, and on Unity 2022.3 answering that dialog crashed the Editor twice. The preflight ran on Edit Mode return only when a focus return had been deferred and the Editor was focused. - Leaving Edit Mode now schedules the preflight, and Edit Mode return runs it whether or not the Editor is focused. Its import-then-reload order is what keeps the dialog away. - The flag already persisted in SessionState, and while it is set Initialize keeps the restored fingerprints. A domain reload on either side of Play therefore no longer re-baselines over the change it must detect. Verified on Unity 2022.3.62f3 with Auto Refresh enabled: after changing an open clean Scene on disk, then CLI Play and Stop, the dialog no longer appeared and Stop returned with the new content loaded. This held with domain reload on Play both disabled and enabled.
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 1 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe tracker now defers focus-return resolution when the Editor exits Edit Mode, persists the deferral, and attempts resolution on EnteredEditMode without checking Editor focus. Tests cover deferral consumption and restored snapshot handling. Documentation describes the post-session preflight. ChangesPlay-session resolution
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change schedules Scene preflight after each Play session, including while the Editor is unfocused. No concrete merge-blocking risk is established; normal checks remain appropriate, with Unity 6 and Prefab Stage validation still outstanding. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change retains existing Editor-only save and reload controls, but applies them after every Play session, including while unfocused. No new security violation was established; recovery from interrupted imports or reloads remains unverified. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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61-72: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdd a tracker-level test for the per-Play-session preflight.
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ExternalSceneFocusReturnDeferral. It does not callExternalSceneChangeTracker.HandlePlayModeStateChanged, checkFocusReturnDeferredSessionStateKey, or verifyResolveForFocusReturnafterEnteredEditMode.A regression in the tracker could therefore stop setting or persisting the deferral, or restore the
EditorApplication.isFocusedgate, while all current tests still pass. Add a test that drives the tracker fromExitingEditModetoEnteredEditModewhile the Editor is unfocused and asserts exactly one preflight.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 133-135: Add a separate one-shot state in
ExternalSceneChangeTracker to record that the post-Play preflight ran; consume
it in the paired HandleFocusChanged(true) callback so it skips the duplicate
ResolveForFocusReturn pass, including after a save failure. Clear the state when
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@Assets/Tests/Editor/ExternalSceneFocusReturnDeferralTests.cs:
- Around line 61-72: Add a tracker-level test for
ExternalSceneChangeTracker.HandlePlayModeStateChanged that drives
ExitingEditMode through EnteredEditMode while the Editor is unfocused and
verifies ResolveForFocusReturn runs exactly once. Assert the deferral is set and
persisted via FocusReturnDeferredSessionStateKey, ensuring the test catches
regressions in the tracker rather than only testing
ExternalSceneFocusReturnDeferral.
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| // Why not wait for focus: Unity's own post-Play refresh can import a changed Scene before any focus | ||
| // return, and the preflight's import-then-reload is what keeps the reload dialog from appearing. | ||
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Suppress the paired focus callback after the post-Play preflight.
When EnteredEditMode consumes the deferral while the Editor is unfocused, the next HandleFocusChanged(true) call starts another ResolveForFocusReturn() pass.
A successful clean-scene reload records fresh snapshots, so that path is a no-op. If saving a dirty externally changed Scene fails, SaveDirtyOpenScenesChangedExternally() leaves the old snapshot in place. The focus callback then retries the save and logs the same unresolved-change warning. Track a separate one-shot “post-Play preflight ran” state and consume it in the paired focus callback. Preserve later focus cycles as valid retry opportunities.
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Review comment at
@Packages/src/Editor/FirstPartyTools/Compile/ExternalSceneChangeTracker.cs
around lines 133 - 135:
Add a separate one-shot state in ExternalSceneChangeTracker to record that the
post-Play preflight ran; consume it in the paired HandleFocusChanged(true)
callback so it skips the duplicate ResolveForFocusReturn pass, including after a
save failure. Clear the state when consumed so later focus cycles can retry
unresolved changes.
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The previous tests only checked that a method set a flag, so removing the ExitingEditMode wiring in the tracker or restoring the focus condition left every test green. ShouldResolveOnPlayModeStateChange now owns both rules: leaving Edit Mode schedules one preflight, and Edit Mode return resolves it regardless of focus. The tracker passes the focus state and resolves exactly when the method returns true, so the tests fail if either rule is dropped.
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uloop control-play-mode --action Stopreturns normally, with the new Scene content loaded.User Impact
control-play-mode --action Stopuntil someone answered it. On Unity 2022.3, answering it crashed the Editor in two of three attempts, once with Ignore and once with Reload.Changes
ExternalSceneFocusReturnDeferral.ShouldResolveOnPlayModeStateChange:ExitingEditModeschedules one preflight for the end of every Play session, andEnteredEditModeruns it whether or not the Editor is focused. Before this change, the preflight was scheduled only when a focus return happened during Play Mode, and it still waited for focus. Unity's own post-Play refresh can import the changed Scene before any focus return, and the preflight's import-then-reload order is what keeps the dialog away.ExternalSceneChangeTrackerpasses each Play Mode transition and the focus state to that method and resolves exactly when it returns true, so both rules live in the tested class.SessionState, and while it is setInitializekeeps the restored fingerprints. A domain reload on either side of Play therefore no longer records the new disk state as the baseline and hides the change.docs/focus-return-asset-handling.mddescribes the end-of-Play preflight.Verification
ExternalSceneFocusReturnDeferralTests: a Play session resolves exactly once on Edit Mode return while unfocused; a Play-transition reload keeps the restored fingerprints; Edit Mode return without a Play session does not resolve; a deferral restored after a reload resolves once. With the new method stubbed to return false, the first two failed on their assertions. TheExternalScene|ExternalAsset|ExternalPrefabtest classes pass (41 tests).Manual check on Unity 2022.3.62f3 with Auto Refresh enabled, repeating the steps that previously showed the dialog (see With Auto Refresh Enabled, an external Scene change shows the modified-externally dialog after Play Mode Stop, and answering it can crash Unity 2022.3 #3047):
sedwhile the Editor is focused.control-play-mode --action Play. Play starts with the old content.control-play-mode --action Stop.Result: with this change the dialog did not appear, Stop returned, and the Scene showed the new content. This held with domain reload on Play both disabled and enabled. Before the change, the same steps showed the dialog and Stop did not return.
Same check on Unity 6000.3.15f1 in a fresh project referencing this package: with the base commit the dialog appeared after Stop; with this change Stop returned with the new Scene content, with domain reload on Play both enabled and disabled.
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Closes #3047