Re: Auto Rescan - as plain text

[Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>]

Hi Junio,

On 09/06/20 05:16PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Luigi Cantoni <luigic@fgcint.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > I have been using git for several years now and using git-cola.
> > I just started up git gui and that is quite self explanatory and all
> > the functions I use with git-cola appear to be there.
> 
> We used to see the maintainer of that project around here quite
> frequently but haven't seen him for a while [jch: David Cc'ed].
> 
> By reading https://git-cola.github.io/about.html it seems that they
> prefer to see problem reports and feature requests at
> https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues and not on this list.

The feature request is for git-gui, asking for auto rescan in git-gui 
like git-cola has. So I think this is the right place for it. Though I 
think its easy to miss that on a quick read of the email. I had to do a 
double take too :-)
 
> > One thing I liked in git-cola was that it very quickly reflected my
> > changes in its display window.
> > I have looked in the options and I cannot see either a flag to set it
> > to auto rescan or set a time for the auto rescan.
> >
> > Have I missed it and there is a way turn this on or give it a shorter
> > time (if in fact it is does do it).
> > If it is not offered could it become an option.
> > I can see that some people may not feel the overhead for distributed
> > system is worth having this on so they would want if off.
> > It is not critical (just nice) as I know I can
> > 1) rescan
> > or 2) go off the file and back on again.
> > It then displays the correct diff/updated contents.
> >
> > Thanks for any advise or help.

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav