Re: File filters for version control view?

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 24 February 2018 at 14:07, Joel Polowin <jpolowin hotmail com> wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I'd like to be able to use Meld for its version control display,
> with unversioned files shown, but have the file filters enabled so
> as not to have the list cluttered with files that are irrelevant:
> tags, cscope.out, etc.  I'm not seeing a way of doing that, and
> I've run across some "yeah, it doesn't do that" comments on line.
> If it's possible, would you please tell me how; if it isn't, would
> you please consider this a feature request?

It's not currently possible. I'd definitely consider a feature
request, but... it's complicated.

Meld's version control view always tries to show you whatever your
version control is going to show you on the command line, and I
personally consider that to be a good design choice. Having said that,
several people have wanted this so... even though I disagree, I'm open
to the notion that I just don't get it.

On a technical/UI level, it's a reasonable amount of work to do this.
The main thing is that it should be *really obvious* that this was
happening, and it should probably be untied from the current global
on/off setting of the filter. In other words, just because I filter
out comment changes in my file comparison doesn't mean that I want to
blanket commit files that have comment-only changes when in version
control view.

In short, feel free to file an issue! However, I can't even picture
how the user interaction would work at the moment, which means that in
my mind, it's a long way off.

cheers,
Kai