Extension keeps changing .wakatime-project file

[petoem]

Wakatime vscode extension keeps writing new project name into .wakatime-project.

.wakatime.log shows this error:

{
  "now": "2018/07/26 12:57:34 +0200",
  "version": "10.2.1",
  "plugin": "vscode/1.25.1 vscode-wakatime/1.2.3",
  "time": 1532602653.8137739,
  "caller": "/home/petoem/.vscode/extensions/wakatime.vscode-wakatime-1.2.3/out/wakatime-master/wakatime/logger.py",
  "lineno": 62,
  "file": "/home/petoem/Documents/workspace/awesomeproject/.wakatime-project",
  "level": "DEBUG",
  "message": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/home/petoem/.vscode/extensions/wakatime.vscode-wakatime-1.2.3/out/wakatime-master/wakatime/stats.py\", line 123, in guess_lexer_using_filename\n    lexer = custom_pygments_guess_lexer_for_filename(file_name, text)\n  File \"/home/petoem/.vscode/extensions/wakatime.vscode-wakatime-1.2.3/out/wakatime-master/wakatime/stats.py\", line 316, in custom_pygments_guess_lexer_for_filename\n    raise ClassNotFound('no lexer for filename %r found' % fn)\npygments.util.ClassNotFound: no lexer for filename '.wakatime-project' found\n"
}

My .wakatime.cfg:

[settings]
debug = true
api_key = 
hide_file_names = true
hide_project_names = true
; include_only_with_project_file = true
offline = true
timeout = 15
hostname = notebook

[alanhamlett]

The WakaTime plugin only creates that DEBUG log when VS Code triggers these editor events:

vscode-wakatime/src/extension.ts

Line 235 in 0efd068

vscode.window.onDidChangeTextEditorSelection(this.onChange, this, subscriptions);

Maybe clicking on the .wakatime-project file inside your project folder is triggering those events, or another plugin is causing unopened files to be modified or opened within your project?

[edmondburnett]

Having the same/similar issue, except with no errors logged in ~/.wakatime.log (this log file exists but is 0 bytes). When hide_project_names is set to true, Wakatime seems to continually generate new project names for the same project in .wakatime-project, resulting in hundreds of new random project names in the dashboard after about an hour and a half of using VS Code.

I'm on macOS 10.13.6 and VS Code 1.30.1, with Wakatime 1.2.5.

[alanhamlett]

Fixed with wakatime/wakatime@8afc6133cf2645d95c0acc84fcddcb5493e508c2 and released just now in v10.7.1. Restarting your VS Code should fix it.

[hilleer]

I have just set hide_project_names to true today. As a result Wakatime started generating those files as suggested by @edmondburnett...

Its a bit silly to add those to all my project's .gitignore, while I believe it is unexpected behaviour?