Re: SVN support under Windows.

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 8 December 2015 at 06:20, Gilboa Davara <gilboad gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm porting some code to Windows (*sigh*). While I can do most of the
> work using Fedora's excellent mingw support, the final touches must be
> done on an actual Windows 10 VM.
>
> As such, I've used msys2 to more or less mimic my Fedora Linux working
> environment. (vim, subversion, ssh and meld 3.15).
>
> meld itself runs with some minor modifications, E.g. I had too add
> gi.require_version("Gtk", "3.0") and gi.require_version("GtkSource",
> "3.0") before the respective calls to 'from gi.repository import
> Gtk/GtkSource' to silence the import Gtk warning.
>
> However, subversion seems to be broken, even though I've got a fairly
> complete msys2 installation.
> If I do '$ meld .' on a working copy, I get a 'Error: Cannot compare a
> mixture of files and directories' error and a help message.
>
> I do understand the subversion under Windows is not really tested, but
> I wonder if I can I somehow help you debug this issue?

So the "good" news is that you haven't hit SVN-specific issues yet.
I'm not sure of the cause, but that error message means that Meld has
decided that at least one of the arguments you've passed is a file,
and at least one is a directory, and is refusing to compare them.

If you can easily edit the install, I'd suggest printing the paths
argument in MeldWindow.append_diff() and see what you're getting
through there. Either you're getting a file you don't expect, or
somehow "." is resolving as both a file and a folder.

(...and just as a final question... have you tried the actual windows
installer?)

cheers,
Kai