Description of problem: The normal meld behaviour that, when you're using an SVN checkout, automatically diffs a modified file in a working copy against the base revision, isn't working in Fedora 13. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): meld-1.3.1-1.fc13.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Check out an SVN working copy from an SVN repository somewhere 2. Modify a file (let's call it "foo") 3. Run "meld foo" from the working copy directory Actual results: Meld opens with a blank screen. Console shows: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/meld/task.py", line 130, in iteration ret = task() File "/usr/share/meld/vcview.py", line 353, in run_diff_iter diff = difffunc() File "/usr/share/meld/vcview.py", line 419, in _command_iter r = readfunc() File "/usr/share/meld/misc.py", line 209, in __call__ self.proc = subprocess.Popen(command, cwd=workdir, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 621, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1126, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '' Expected results: Meld opens the file "foo", showing the difference between the modified version and the original one as checked out.
I had this same problem, and fixed with "yum install patch". Can you confirm its the same with you? And perhaps the meld maintainer could add this as a dependency :D
No, I already had patch installed. However, I have investigated more and this seems to be GNOME bug 597718. The patch from the upstream bugtracker (http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=145236) fixes it for me. Brian, please could this be applied to the Fedora meld?
(In reply to comment #2) > No, I already had patch installed. However, I have investigated more and this > seems to be GNOME bug 597718. The patch from the upstream bugtracker > (http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=145236) fixes it for > me. Brian, please could this be applied to the Fedora meld? Yeah I can, thanks for taking the time to look into this.
meld-1.3.1-3.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/meld-1.3.1-3.fc13
meld-1.3.1-3.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update meld'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/meld-1.3.1-3.fc13
meld-1.3.1-3.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 651815 ***