From 9978fee51208b2c6031f611fdbc25f8752d8d7a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Damir=20Jeli=C4=87?= <poljar@termina.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:06:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Lifecycle: Comment why we need to initialize the index before
 the client.

---
 src/Lifecycle.js | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Lifecycle.js b/src/Lifecycle.js
index aab7884b2e..b52e5e9da5 100644
--- a/src/Lifecycle.js
+++ b/src/Lifecycle.js
@@ -588,6 +588,9 @@ async function startMatrixClient(startSyncing=true) {
     Mjolnir.sharedInstance().start();
 
     if (startSyncing) {
+        // The client might want to populate some views with events from the
+        // index (e.g. the FilePanel), therefore initialize the event index
+        // before the client.
         await EventIndexPeg.init();
         await MatrixClientPeg.start();
     } else {