call for testing: auto-refresh in Bazaar Explorer

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Maritza Mendez wrote:
>> Ian,
>>
>> Great idea!  Please make this optional with default=on.
> 
> I'm happy to do that.
> 
> I work on
>> branches of various sizes from 2K to 20K files and up to a few hundred
>> directories.  Usually I want status updated right away.  But if I have
>> just moved a few hundred files (new libs or refactoring an old
>> project) I might have to wait several minutes for status to update.
> 
> If status takes several minutes to update, it's a bug. On the OOo tree
> with 80K files, it only takes a few seconds at most for me.
> 
> Ian C.
> 
> 

Note that if we think a lot of content has changed, we might actually
re-read the content and compute the sha1. That could take a long time.

I don't think just renaming files would do that, but if the mtime was
updated, it would.

John
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