Hello Kai, Thanks for your email and considering this patch proposal. I guess I'll try to prototype it, and share my results.
I totally understand your angle, and you don't have to be obliged to include it. Thanks, -Muthu On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]>wrote: > On 25 October 2013 13:13, Ezhil Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Kai, > > Nice work on Meld - it is one of my favorite merge tools. I propose a > > feature where meld asks you to change file-permissions of target file on > > Linux machine when the file-merge fails due to permission reasons. > > > > Motivation: Some code I work on has a convention of marking edited files > > with a 755 permission against version control HEAD files, checkout with a > > 444 permission. So when I develop on this system I have a hard time > merging > > using meld, because of not being able to change permissions from within > the > > tool - a switch back and forth between terminal and meld GUI. > > While I can understand the problem you're trying to fix, I think it's > very specific to your project, so I'm not sure that incorporating this > in to Meld would be a good idea. Apart from anything else, Meld can't > possibly know what it should actually change the permissions to in the > general case. > > Would it be possible to work around this problem by just creating a > wrapper script that chmod-ed files as part of invoking Meld as a merge > tool? > > Cheers, > Kai >
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