kendo-labs/angular-kendo — pull request #245 by astral303 (2014-03-19 18:07:23+00:00)
Title: Do not reset $viewValue back to the uninitialized widget value.

If currentVal != ngModel.$viewValue, and we reset widget.value() to be
the new ngModel.$viewValue, then it never makes sense to set
ngModel.$viewValue back to the old value.

Fixes issue #244.

Looks like this is a regression from a previous refactoring in commit 6e27524ce1712f5aaa04bb92d411bdae4c28395a, where var currentVal was extracted. Previously, the repeated calls to widget.value() would produce the updated value after widget.value() setter was called.