Hi Kai, Thanks for the explanation. Meanwhile, I was able to find the cause of the problem (I think).
My analysis, is that the meld failure was probably because the content of the file was not really changed, only its permissions were changed (I think from 644 to 755). As a result, "git diff" reported to meld that this file has been changed; however, patch, couldn't handle the change, because the change was only in permissions. This probably caused meld to present the error I sent you. The scenario was: 1. invoking: meld . & 2. double clicking the line of the *.sh (that was only changed in permissions) 3. getting the error message I sent you. I would think that this scenario is not very rare. Hence, if you think this analysis is wrong, then, please let me know, and I'll do my best to reproduce it for you. Regards, Avner -- Avner BenHanoch | Sr Sw Engineer | App Acceleration | Mellanox | +972-(74)7129409 -----Original Message----- From: Kai [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 7:58 AM To: Avner Ben Hanoch Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: bug report Invoking 'patch' failed for a .sh file On 19 July 2011 18:34, Avner Ben Hanoch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using meld for the 1st day. It looks cool. > I got the following error when trying to show changes for a *.sh file. > I am using RHEL6.0, with git version 1.7.1, and with patch version > 2.6. I have no problem to see changes for other files (*.cc & *.xml) > in meld. The type of file shouldn't really make a difference. If you're getting this problem with multiple .sh files... that would be odd. <snip> > - meld version: '1.4.0' 1.4.0 is pretty old at this stage. If you can reproduce the problem with something more recent (ideally 1.5.2) then please file a bug. If you can provide a way to reproduce the bug (i.e., a repository URL or a minimal test case) then that would be great. In case you don't know, you don't need to install Meld in order to test out newer versions. Just running bin/meld from the archive directory should work. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
