I get the reload indicator if ./tempdir/file1 is more recent than ./file1 (and ./file1 is open in Geany).

Isn't that the situation with your reproduce instructions in the OP, temp/file1 is created after ./file1? Which is why it worked for me.

If its the other way around and the file manager copies the date/time from the older file to the newer file during a copy then yes there is no prompt because the compare is < not just !=. Its been that way for at least the 10 years I looked back before I got bored. And the info message does say "file on disk is newer" so I would say its intentional, the code is looking for a file that has been modified after it was last saved, so its mtime should be newer.

File managers backdating the modification time on changed files is a "bad thing" because if it does that to a source code file then make will break when next run 😢 .

Plain cp of course sets the mtime to now, not the from file time, when it does the copy so you get the message.

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