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FS#23185 - [meld] can not compare svn copy

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Lincoln Zhang (CrazyPandar) - Tuesday, 08 March 2011, 10:56 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Saturday, 30 April 2011, 14:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
meld can not compare svn copy

Additional info:
* meld 1.4.0-3

Steps to reproduce:
meld-->[File]-->[New...]->[Version Control Browser]
-->Browse to my svn copy-->[OK]
Nothing happens.
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Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Saturday, 30 April 2011, 14:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Monday, 14 March 2011, 12:17 GMT
Comparing SVN directories work for me.
Can you be more specific as to what you expect and take a screenshot of what actually happens?
Comment by Lincoln Zhang (CrazyPandar) - Monday, 14 March 2011, 13:02 GMT
See the attachments:
meld-1.png shows 'svn diff' result.
meld-2.png and meld-3.png show meld diff result.
In meld-3.png the result shows nothing.


And I found another thing, If I change working directory to the svn copy and then excute meld, it works.
   meld-1.png (97.2 KiB)
   meld-2.png (24 KiB)
   meld-3.png (28.7 KiB)
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Monday, 14 March 2011, 14:19 GMT
Try clicking on the "Normal" and "Non VC" buttons (they are hidden for lack of horizontal space, click on the triangle to the right of "Flatten" and "Modify" to show them).
But it should display the path to your VC directory anyhow...
Have you tried using meld on the same directory but on another computer?
Comment by Matt Schick (schickm) - Monday, 28 March 2011, 22:48 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
I've can duplicate this behavior running meld-1.4.0-3.

Also it should be noted that version control comparison does work as correctly when starting meld from the cli with a singular file or directory. e.g:

meld some-file.lisp
meld my-project/

I'll be happy to actually respond to any questions and assist with getting this resolved.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Monday, 28 March 2011, 23:11 GMT
Does this issue happen consistently for one specific versioned folder (under which version control system?) over several computers, or does it affect just one machine?
Unfortunately, I will have no time to investigate this the upcoming week.
Since this sounds very much like an upstream issue, could you trying reporting it there and post the link of your report here?
Comment by Lincoln Zhang (CrazyPandar) - Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 01:33 GMT
My office workstation and home laptop all have this issue.
On my office workstation, SVN's version is 1.6.15, python's version is 2.7.
Maybe it is caused by python upgrade.
Comment by Matt Schick (schickm) - Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 17:04 GMT
I only have arch running on my work machine so I cannot comment on alternate machines.

The issue happens for me with Subversion and Git repositories, however, opening up a mercurial repository via the UI works just fine. Strange...

I'll post again if I get any hits from an upstream bug report.

Lincoln: will a mercurial repository work for you as well?
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Sunday, 24 April 2011, 11:55 GMT
Matt, can you post the URL of the upstream bug report here?
Then I will close this bug as there is apparently not much we can do from a packaging viewpoint.

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