On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Stephen Kennedy<[email protected]> wrote: >> If I'm in a directory managed by source control and I type 'meld .' at >> the command line, I find that meld seems to scan the entire directory >> structure (starting from the repo root even if I'm in a subdirectory) >> looking for changes. Two questions: >> >> 1) Why does meld scan from root every time? Should it not just scan >> starting from the directory it was invoked from? > > Hi Edwin, in previous versions the behavior was as you would expect > (you just see from the subdirectory down). The vc plugins have been > tidied and refactored in 1.3 and this must have slipped in.
I'll have a look at this > I've attached a hack which works-for-me. In the meanwhile can you > open a bug? Care to share the hack ? >> 2) Why does meld manually scan for changes when it can rely on the >> source control itself (e.g. svn st or hg st) to get a list of files? > > I don't understand this one, meld generally parses the vc status command > output to detect file states. Meld scans all of the tree recursively, even if only one file is checked out/modified, this can be very long... -- Vincent Legoll _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
