Re: Recnt update broke "meld ."

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 6 March 2013 05:49, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
> On 2013-03-05, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> > On 6 March 2013 02:55, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
> > > It seems that a recent upgrade broke the "meld ." operation.
> > >
> > > That command always used to diff only the files under the current
> > > directory. Now it diffs the entire SVN repository.  For large
> > > projects, this causes long delays and display of hundreds of unwanted
> > > directories and files when all that was requested what a display of a
> > > handful.
> > >
> > > Is this a known issue?
> >
> > Can you be more specific? What version of Meld are you using, and what
> > version of SVN?
>
> Sorry, I should have included that in my original post...
>
> Meld         1.6.0
> subversion   1.7.7
>
> I'm running on a Gentoo IA32 system.
>
> I've been doing some digging, and it looks like the last time meld was
> updated was in October (6 months ago).  Subversion was updated at the
> end of January (about 5 weeks ago).  But, I only noticed this behavior
> this morning.  I use meld daily, so I'm a little baffled as to what
> has happened...

Right. The changes in subversion 1.7 meant that we couldn't support
subdirectory comparison in the same way as for subversion <1.6.
Support for that was re-added in either Meld 1.7.0 or 1.7.1, I can't
recall which.

It may be possible to fix support in the 1.6 series, but I wouldn't
count on it being a non-invasive change. Certainly the changes in Meld
1.7.x are far too disruptive to backport to the stable series.

cheers,
Kai