Re: [feature request] option to hide tree of empty directories in identical subtrees

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 30 December 2013 23:03, Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter722 aol de> wrote:
> Hi together,
> I'd like to propose the following feature request: It would be nice to
> have an option to hide the tree of empty directories in identical
> subtrees completely (instead of just collapsing it) when filter for
> identical files is turned on (i.e. identical files are not displayed)
> (folders don't have to be necessarily empty, but are displayed as empty
> because they contain no differences). This gives better overview because
> if once some nodes on an identical subtree are expanded and some nodes
> on non-identical subtrees are collapsed the user looses track of which
> subtrees are identical and which are not.

This is a very long-standing request, made unpleasant by our current
tree model construction. See:
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131231
for the general case, including proper collapsing.

There is also:
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680569
with a patch that I've reviewed but with no response. I might try to
take a fresh look at the patch and see if it will still apply and how
much work it would be to clean up.

cheers,
Kai