Re: Auto Rescan - as plain text

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

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.

>
> 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.
> -- 
>
> Thanks
> Luigi Cantoni
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