Re: [PATCH] autorevert.el -- revert fix for Windows platform

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Jari Aalto <address@hidden>
>> Date: 23 Mar 2007 09:03:20 +0200
>> 
>> > That's not foolproof, since changes need not alter the file size.
>> 
>> True. Do you know any use case of such a situation?
>
> Yes: replace one characters with another, and make no other changes.

How often does an external file change in that way?

FWIW, auto-revert mode is often used to track changes to files that do
change size, e.g. log file, compilation output, etc, and in such cases,
Jari's patch is a significant improvement, even if it is not a general
solution to the problem.

For the release, I'd say Jari's patch is good enough!

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