File not marked as 'M' when contents differ from repo

[Jim Hague]

On Thursday 05 July 2007 17:08, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:30:24AM +0100, Jim Hague wrote:
> > [...] After a bit more fiddling this morning, it looks like the problem
> > is that a change made in the same second as an update won't be
> > detected.
> >
> >[...]
>
> Changes that don't change file time OR size OR mode are indeed not
> detected.

A quick look at the Subversion source suggests that they have the same 
problem. Or they would, were it not for the client calling 
svn_sleep_for_timestamps() (which sleeps to the next second tick + 0.1s for 
margin) after updating operations. Would you consider similar for hg? Bit 
hacky, I know.
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Jim Hague - jim.hague at acm.org          Never trust a computer you can't lift.