patch 8.1.0161: buffer not updated with 'autoread' set if file was deleted commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/386bc82a3f82f70bad75aaad74dba57a176b5840 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Jul 7 18:34:12 2018 +0200 patch 8.1.0161: buffer not updated with 'autoread' set if file was deleted Problem: Buffer not updated with 'autoread' set if file was deleted. (Michael Naumann) Solution: Don't set the timestamp to zero. (closes #3165)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!