Re: error in meld operation...

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 18 September 2012 17:08, Mark Davey <Mark Davey heliocentris com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> This was reported first attempt at using meld! Am trying to ween myself off BeyondCompare in an evironment where no BC exists!
> Not an expert so may not have al the
>
> Invoking 'patch' failed.
>
> Maybe you don't have 'GNU patch' installed,
> or you use an untested version of Subversion.
>
> Please send email bug report to:
> meld-list gnome org
>
> Containing the following information:
>
> - meld version: '1.3.2'
> - source control software type: 'Subversion'
> - source control software version: 'X.Y.Z'
> - the output of 'svn diff somefile.txt'
> - patch command: 'patch --strip=0 --reverse --directory=/tmp/tmp_Or_DF-meld'
> (no need to actually run it, just provide
> the command line)
>
> Replace 'X.Y.Z' by the actual version for the
> source control software you use.
>
>
> $svn --version
> svn, version 1.6.12 (r955767)
>    compiled May 31 2011, 19:23:20
> Meld 1.3.2
> $ svn diff iom6_plus/lib/dm/eml_dh.c patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.

Sorry, but Meld 1.3.2 is *really* old by now. Please try with Meld
1.6, which you can get from:
    http://meldmerge.org/
You don't need to install it; Meld will run just fine from the
unarchived directory.

There are still a couple of cases where you might get that kind of
error: SVN keyword expansions, and auto CRLF conversions. If it's not
one of these two cases, and you still see the problem in Meld 1.6,
please follow-up with further details (OS, how you're invoking Meld,
what svn status says, etc.).

cheers,
Kai