Re: Source control: Scanning for changes

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

> If I'm in a directory managed by source control and I type 'meld .' at
> the command line, I find that meld seems to scan the entire directory
> structure (starting from the repo root even if I'm in a subdirectory)
> looking for changes. Two questions:
>
> 1) Why does meld scan from root every time? Should it not just scan
> starting from the directory it was invoked from?

Hi Edwin, in previous versions the behavior was as you would expect
(you just see from the subdirectory down). The vc plugins have been
tidied and refactored in 1.3 and this must have slipped in.

I've attached a hack which works-for-me. In the meanwhile can you
open a bug?

> 2) Why does meld manually scan for changes when it can rely on the
> source control itself (e.g. svn st or hg st) to get a list of files?

I don't understand this one, meld generally parses the vc status command
output to detect file states.

Stephen.