Re: meld filename scans entire tree

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 22 April 2010 03:51, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
> Recently I noticed that I can no longer look at the changes I've made
> to a single file under SVN control by doing "meld filename".  I swear
> that used to just show me the changes for the specified file.

Do you mean that this doesn't work, or that it does work, but also
uselessly scans the directory tree? From my testing, this works in git
(modulo the scanning).

> Now it
> goes ahead on its own and scans the entire directory tree underneath
> the current directory.

As far as I can tell, Meld has always done this.

The problem is that viewing differences of a single file under VC is
hacked on to the existing version control view. What we actually do
when asked to view a single file from the command line is open (but
not display) a version control tab, fully populate it, and ask it to
launch a comparison of the file we actually wanted in the first place.

I don't think we can just not populate the view and still have things
work, but it shouldn't be that hard to add a new pathway to VcView to
initiate a single file comparison.

Kai