"GOT", but the "O" is a cute, smiling pufferfish. Index | Thread | Search

From:
"Todd C. Miller" <millert@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: vi struggling to save commit messages
To:
Ted Bullock <tbullock@comlore.com>
Cc:
gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:14:09 -0700

Download raw body.

Thread
On Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:41:05 -0700, Ted Bullock wrote:

> I'm getting this when I try to commit a file now that got has switched
> to vi instead of ed. :P
>
> vi reports:
> logmsg-vu6jOR: file modified more recently than this copy
>
> My got working directory is shared on an NFS mount since my old Sun
> workstation is quite thin and doesn't have much of a hdd.
>
> I double checked the time on the NFS server, it's correct and consistent
> with the workstation.

NFS v2 mounts only support usec time stamp, if you use NFS v3 the
problem may go away.

 - todd