Re: soft link loops

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 8 August 2013 18:42, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 6 August 2013 18:14, Björn Spruck
> <Bjoern Spruck exp2 physik uni-giessen de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > (meld 1.6.1, ubuntu 13.4)
> >
> > If meld is started in/on a git repository ("meld ."), which contains a soft
> > link loop (like "ln -s . loop"), it will scan nearly endlessly.
> >
> > Even if started on a normal directory containing a softlink, it will only
> > work on a first look.
> > If you click on "unversioned files" you will see that meld will loop into
> > the softlink trap, too.
> >
> > mkdir test ; cd test ; ln -s . loop ; meld .
>
> I think that will affect all version control backends. We don't have
> any symlink checking when doing tree scanning at all, if I recall
> correctly. Could you please file a bug?

I've just pushed a change that fixes this problem in my testing.
Please let me know if it doesn't fix your test cases.

cheers,
Kai