Re: meld shows modified files with cvsnt, but won't compare

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

Hi Steve, due to a refactoring the cvs preferences page is now unused.
The real values are in the source in the vc subfolder. In your case you'll
need to change vc/cvs.py: you'll see a line CMD="cvs" which should in your
case be cvsnt.

Ideally we could detect cvsnt. Is this possible from examining the CVS/* files?

BTW meld supports many version control systems - see again the vc folder.

Stephen.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Steve Franks <stevefranks ieee org> wrote:
> Happy to find a diff that's interested in talking to source control,
> since most cvs's seem to think everyone should be able to parse diff
> output manually (not one of my strong suits)!
>
> Anyone attempt to use Meld 1.1.5.1 with cvsnt?  I don't see why it
> shouldn't work, but I've never found a tool that works with cvsnt,
> even though all options are compatible with regular cvs at the manpage
> level ("cvsnt -z9 -q update -r xyz file" works).  My protocol
> (sserver) is different (from pserver or ssh) but that's hidden by cvs
> if you use the executable instead of parsing the CVS folder...
>
> When I open a folder with files under cvsnt in it, it correctly shows
> all modified files, but "compare" won't show differences from the
> repository (maybe that's not what it's supposed to do?)  This seems to
> indicate that meld is talking to cvs which is talking to the
> repository correctly.  Don't tell me I have to write a script to check
> out a temp copy from the repository and stuff it into meld?
>
> Also, if I browse to the cvsnt executable in settings/preferences/cvs,
> the next time I open the preferences, it's back to /usr/bin/cvs
> (instead of /usr/local/bin/cvsnt) - perhaps this is part of the
> problem?
>
> While we're at it, is SVN support planned?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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