Re: Strange behavior with git and oct-files

[Mike Miller]

2012/4/19 Reza Housseini <address@hidden>:
> 2012/4/19 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
>> On 19 April 2012 03:38, Reza Housseini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I'm using a local git repository with an oct-file inside it which calls
>> > some
>> > C++ code. I'm now working on a branch other then the master branch. When
>> > I
>> > compile my file using mkoctfile and let it run in the terminal, it
>> > don't recognizes that the file was being updated, I have to restart
>> > octave
>> > to run the actual file. What could be the cause of this and did someone
>> > experience the same problem?
>>
>> Just to be clear, you checked in the compiled version of the oct file
>> into git? (Aside: Using git to track compiled files is a little
>> strange.) And when you change to a different compiled file by doing
>> "git checkout other-branch", Octave doesn't reload the oct file?
>>
>> Is this a problem you experience only with git? If you swap around oct
>> files without git, does Octave reload them? If it's only a git
>> problem, perhaps there is some hardlinking going on, but I would like
>> to make sure.
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.
>
>
> Hello Jordi,
>
> no that's the funny thing, the compiled file isn't it the repository at all.
> When I compile my modified source file (which is in the repo) then octave
> misses somehow that a new compiled file is available. Without git I never
> had problems with Compilation of oct-files. What you mean with hardlinking?
> when it isn't in the repo there's no need for any linking?

I think he was suggesting hardlinks for files checked in to the repo.
I have a hard time believing git could be interfering with a compiled
file that is not version-controlled by git.

So your octave path includes your git working directory?  Just to be
positive, are you sure octave has the directory in its path and that
is where the function is loading from?  If you delete the oct file in
the terminal does octave correctly complain that it can't find the
function?

-- 
mike