On 8 August 2013 18:42, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 August 2013 18:14, Björn Spruck
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> (meld 1.6.1, ubuntu 13.4)
>>
>> If meld is started in/on a git repository ("meld ."), which contains a soft
>> link loop (like "ln -s . loop"), it will scan nearly endlessly.
>>
>> Even if started on a normal directory containing a softlink, it will only
>> work on a first look.
>> If you click on "unversioned files" you will see that meld will loop into
>> the softlink trap, too.
>>
>> mkdir test ; cd test ; ln -s . loop ; meld .
>
> I think that will affect all version control backends. We don't have
> any symlink checking when doing tree scanning at all, if I recall
> correctly. Could you please file a bug?

I've just pushed a change that fixes this problem in my testing.
Please let me know if it doesn't fix your test cases.

cheers,
Kai
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