bug#21559: [PATCH] autorevert: Wait a while before calling vc-find-file-hook

[Ben Gamari]

Hi Michael,

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> [removing emacs-devel, discussion in one ML is sufficient]
>
Okay. Works for me.

> Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> writes:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
>> This provides a resolution for Bug #21559.
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> But as I said already, I'm not happy to insert so much hard-wired vc
> related operations into autorevert.el. And this is triggered just by
> git, IIUC the other vc backends do not suffer from this problem.

Fair enough.

> Have you considered another solution, maybe by providing vc(-git)
> specific buffer-stale-function and revert-buffer? This would be much
> more in the spirit how autorevert is supposed to work. And this would
> simplify maintenance,

Could you perhaps describe in a bit detail what the semantics of these
functions would be? I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are
proposing.

> when git changes its behaviour, and we need to adapt vc-git
> accordingly.

You are more optimistic than me on whether git will be fixed ;)

Thanks for your feedback!

Cheers,

- Ben

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