On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:51:26 +0100 (Romance Standard Time)
Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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> > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:18:36 -0500
> > Tony Maro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > > > The files didn't changed on disk, so an automatic refresh would undo
> > > > your current changes.
> > > >
> > > > At the moment the IDE does this:
> > > > On saving/opening a file it retrieves the FileAge of the file.
> > > > At several occassions it compares these file dates with the current
> > > > file dates.
> > > > If it changed it gives the user the choice.
> > > >
> > > It's odd, because both computers sync clocks from the same timeserver
> > > - which is also located on my network. I've looked and the clocks
> > > appear the same, so I assume it's something about going from Linux to
> > > Windows over NFS that's making it look different.
> > > > When the server and the client are not properly synchronized, the
> > > > file dates differ (but not immediately because of the caches) and
> > > > for the client it seems as if the file changed.
> > > > We could extend the check to load the file and compare its content.
> > > I'd think have it run the DIFF before deciding to pop up the dialog,
> > > and if nothing appears, ignore the change?
> >
> > This means IO overhead. Especially on a network fs. That's why I didn't
> > implement it.
>
> That is why I wouldn't recommend implementing it, either.
> Imagine the IDE suddenly diffing all files in your project !
Right. But if no one comes up with a solution we should add this as an
option.
> WinCVS has the same problem. When we switch from winter DST to summer DST
> all files on a NTFS directory structure, all files are marked as
> 'locally changed'. It has probably something to do with NTFS using
> universal time when storing filetimes.
> (that is the explanation I read for the CVS phenomenon)
>
> I expect something similar is happening here.
Mattias
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