Re: git and (p9p) acme

[Mathieu Lonjaret <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com>]

It happened again. and I've just realized it's simply what you had
warned about: since it was an --amend and I didn't change anything in
the message there was no change to the ls -l output, hence E did
nothing when I Put.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Mathieu Lonjaret
<mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just retried on the machine where I had the problem and it now
> just works. No need even for awd indeed.
> I'll try and reproduce the behavior, but I just don't see what I may
> have done different the previous times...
>
> thanks,
> Mathieu
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Mathieu Lonjaret
>> <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So, are you saying E just works out of the box for you as the $EDITOR
>>> for git/hg?
>>
>> Yes.  Note that E waits for the file to change by running
>> ls -l on the file in a loop.  If for some reason doing the Put
>> does not change the ls -l output (date+size, primarily) then
>> E will not exit.  If you are having trouble I would suggest
>> putting some echo statements in the script or just doing
>> 'set -e' at the top so that it echoes each statement as it
>> executes (including the all-important comparison).
>>
>> I cannot imagine why using awd would change the behavior
>> of the E script.
>>
>> Russ