GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 711458
Meld File Filters does not seem to work
Last modified: 2013-11-09 22:02:54 UTC
Meld does not seem to take into account a custom "File Filters" rule to ignore a folder. I defined a new rule to ignore a .meteor folder. Nevertheless, when meld loads it hangs for a few seconds scanning the .meteor folder. I presume that's the case because it shows "Scanning .meteor/local/build/..." at the status bar. There are hundreds of files under .meteor. Waiting until meld scans all of them vs my ten relevant project files is quite frustrating. Is this a bug? If not, can someone tell what am I missing? Thanks! --- some details: $ lsb_release -a ... Description: Ubuntu 13.10 $ dpkg -l meld | grep ii ii meld 1.8.1-1
Created attachment 258984 [details] show's status bar while meld is scanning the .meteor folder
Created attachment 258986 [details] screenshot, ignore .meteor filter
The behaviour you're seeing is the intended behaviour... mostly. Filters are intentionally not applied to version control comparisons; they're for folder comparisons only. The idea is that a version control comparison should always show you exactly what the VC sees. Having said that, we should limit scanning of folders that the VC ignores, and don't do that currently (see bug 684400). Does that sound like it would reasonably solve your problem?
yes, a fix for bug 684400 will solve my problem. Thanks!
Cheers. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 684400 ***