On 24 July 2011 17:09, Avner Ben Hanoch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
Git doesn't record any permissions changes other than the exec bit, so yes, it must have been 644 to 755 or vice-versa. > 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. That looks right to me, and I can reproduce this problem here. Can you please file a bug? cheers, Kai
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