Comment 3 for bug 412876

IPC with the qbzr (or bzr-gtk) applets is one option. Another is to try setting up some sort of file-system watcher on selected files, e.g. dirstate after 'Add' or 'Commit'.

Automatic refreshing is really important IMO for a great user experience! My initial priority though is getting functional coverage of tasks completed so that users can remain in Explorer 95-99% of the time without needing to go to the command line. As a consequence, I'm not optimistic that I'll have time to fix this prior to 1.0 shipping around the end of August. I'll take patches though. :-)