Re: vc-dired refresh

[Alexandru Harsanyi <harsanyi@mac.com>]

On 19 Jan 2008, at 6:48 AM, Nick Roberts wrote:

>
> I've noticed the following problem with vc-dired.  Its present in  
> Emacs 21.3
> and a bit obscure, so Ij ust present it here for the record.
>
> Sometimes that if you do version control operations outside Emacs, 'g'
> (revert-buffer) in vc-dired doesn't keep track of the changes  
> (presumably using
> some internal state).
>
> Here's one (contrived) example of what I'm saying:
>
> From the command line:
>
>   1) cd emacs/src  (or your directory for Emacs C files.
>
>   2) touch emacs.c
>
> From Emacs (with cvs-stay-local t)
>
>   3) C-x v d
>
>   4) Dired under VC (directory): ~/emacs/src/<RET>
>
> emacs.c is displayed as modified because the date has changed
>
> From the command line:
>
>   5) cvs status emacs.c
>
> This finds no changes, updates the timestamp in Entries and reports  
> that
> emacs.c is up-to-date.
>
> From Emacs
>
>   6) 'g' should show now that emacs.c is not modified but doesn't,  
> presumably
>   because it doesn't consult the Entries file again.
>

I believe this is related to the vc-workfile-unchanged-p problem I  
reported in mid December 2007.  Basically vc will consider a file as  
changed if its modification time is different than the one recorded  
at checkout (or when the file  is first loaded).

The problem will also manifest itself in C-x v v prompting you to  
checkin the file instead of saying that it is up to date.

Cheers,
Alex.