GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 144505
flatten view in directory comparing mode
Last modified: 2017-12-13 18:43:53 UTC
It would be nice if meld would have flatten view in directory comparing mode (currently meld has flatten button only in CVS mode). When comparing lots directories it's very time-consuming to remove for example identifical files from different subdirectories - flatten view (with option to sort files by diff's results) would solve these problems.
Good idea. Btw you know you can view only different files by unchecking the "same" button in directory diff?
Stephen Kennedy wrote: >Btw you know you can view only different files by unchecking the "same" button in directory diff? Yes, I know this, but often I need to view (and delete) only identifical files - and now this is very time consuming if there are several levels of subdirectories and some contains identifical files but other - not, because I need manually go through various subdirectories in tree and select *every* identifical file with CTRL + mouse button. If I choose to delete whole directory meld deletes all files/subdirectories in this subdirectory, even when filter is to set to show only identifical files !!! I know, that advanced users can understand this, but most simple users think, that meld should delete only these files, which it displays in tree. It seems this is another bugreport :) If meld would have flatten view in directory comparing mode (with option to sort files by diff's results) these problems would be solved - then I simply can sort by diff results (or filter files with show modified and show new buttons) and select whole group of needed files with shift + mouse button :) Btw, I noticed another bug/enhancement - if I press some filter button (to show/hide modified, new or identifical files) in directory comparing mode, then meld compares all files in directory/subdirectories again and this takes a lot of time :( It would be wise to remmember comparision results of files and only show/hide needed files - if user want recompare he always can press refresh button :) Should I report another bug for this ?
I think it would be strange for deleting a directory to only delete the displayed child files. Its more natural to have a 1-1 mapping - delete a directory really deletes a directory. Flattened mode is a good idea though. I think eventually source control view and directory view should merge. Finally, yes meld does a full refresh - this is because it is incredibly painful to do incremental updates without gtkTreeModelFilter (which was only added to 2.4 and witness the bugs files against that!)
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