Russel, Latest version of Meld for OSX has resolved the issue of relative paths. Are you sure you're using latest version?
Regards, Youssef On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Russell Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Youssef, > > Great thanks for your help. This alias helps a lot, however it only works > if you use absolute paths to the files that you want meld to open. > > For instance after defining said alias > > $meld `pwd`/file1.py `pwd`/file2.py # works > > However this is still not as graceful as one would like. I tried defining > a bash function in .profile instead, but invoking meld this way also does > not produce the intended behaviour. > > function meld { > /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld $@ > } > > On 2 August 2016 at 05:10, Youssef A. Abou-Kewik <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Russel, >> >> After installing Meld to the /Applications folder, add the following to >> your .bashrc >> >> alias meld="/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld" >> >> One done, you can start a terminal and use meld from the command line as >> you normally would in Linux. >> >> Check this for more details: https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues/20 >> >> Regards, >> Youssef >> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Russell Jarvis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> First of all I would like to thank the community for creating and >>> maintaining Meld. It is by far my favourite graphical merge tool. It also >>> provides the only graphical merge flow that instantly made sense to me. >>> >>> I have configured git to invoke meld when it needs to merge. Some how >>> git is able to launch meld with two files as an argument. I would like to >>> be able to also launch meld with two files as an argument explicitly. As >>> often I want to diff files for other reasons than a git merge. When I >>> launch meld from the command line in Apple it ignores any command line >>> arguments I give it, so I am wondering how can I find the code that git >>> merge uses to invoke it? I have tried searching the git source code on >>> github but to evail. >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> Russell. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> meld-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list >>> >> >> >
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