diff --git a/vcs_integration_for_plugins.md b/vcs_integration_for_plugins.md index 9f42f3157..f5ab2054b 100644 --- a/vcs_integration_for_plugins.md +++ b/vcs_integration_for_plugins.md @@ -12,8 +12,13 @@ The VCS API was significantly refactored in version 6.0, and this document does ### FilePath -A [FilePath](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/vcs-api/vcs-api-core/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/FilePath.java) represents a path to a file or directory on disk or in the VCS repository. -Unlike a VirtualFile, a FilePath can represent a path to a file which doesn't exist on disk. +A [FilePath](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/vcs-api/vcs-api-core/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/FilePath.java) +represents a path to a file or directory on disk or in the VCS repository. +Unlike a +[VirtualFile](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/vfs/VirtualFile.java), +a +[FilePath](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/vcs-api/vcs-api-core/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/FilePath.java) +can represent a path to a file which doesn't exist on disk. The main difference between a FilePath and a java.io.File is that a FilePath caches the VirtualFile corresponding to the path, so it can be retrieved without doing a VFS search. To create instances of FilePath, the VcsContextFactory API is used.