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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000222 | VisualDiffer | Files differ | public | 2014-01-15 17:30 | 2014-01-18 08:23 |
| Reporter | matthewadams | Assigned To | admin | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| OS | Mac OS X Mavericks | OS Version | 10.9.1 | ||
| Fixed in Version | 1.5.8 | ||||
| Summary | 0000222: Can't directly open file after 'git difftool --dir-diff' due to git's use of symbolic links | ||||
| Description | First, I ensured that my VisualDiffer preferences and my session preferences are set to follow symbolic links. When I run the command 'git difftool --dir-diff', git produces two temporary directories. The first, called "left" represents the HEAD version and contains copies of the files at that version. The second, called "right", contains symbolic links to the currently changed files. VisualDiffer correctly shows that there are differences between the current files and HEAD. However, when I double click one of the files to view their differences, VisualDiffer prompts me for the location of the file on the right (the symbolically linked file) and the open file dialog lists the two symlinks (see screenshot). If I open the link, VisualDiffer then correctly shows the file differences. Please have VisualDiffer open the symlinked files directly so that I don't have to open them manually. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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The problem seems related to Apple sandbox and path not accessible from VisualDiffer. Please take a look at wiki http://wiki.visualdiffer.com/index.php/Trusted_Paths and configure TrustedPath to allow access to /var/ |
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Just tried that. Same behavior. :( |
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Please try to add / (whole disk) |
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The directory "/" was already in my trusted paths. |
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Are file unix symbolic links or OSX aliases?? I can confirm VD had a bug with aliases, this bug has been fixed but not yet published on MAS. If the files are aliases and if you want I can send you the beta version so you can help me to test it. I totally understand if you don't want to be a beta tester. |
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It looks like they're just plain, old symbolic links: matthew@newt:~ $ cd /private/var/folders/8z/yrvl9xzn3jl3czsk22sr_kf80000gn/T/git-difftool.1lNGs/right/spring-data-cassandra/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/cassandra/config/xml matthew@newt:/private/var/folders/8z/yrvl9xzn3jl3czsk22sr_kf80000gn/T/git-difftool.1lNGs/right/spring-data-cassandra/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/cassandra/config/xml $ ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x 3 matthew staff 102B Jan 16 06:03 . drwxr-xr-x 4 matthew staff 136B Jan 16 06:03 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 matthew staff 175B Jan 16 06:03 CassandraNamespaceHandler.java -> /Users/matthew/Documents/spring-projects/spring-data-cassandra/spring-data-cassandra/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/cassandra/config/xml/CassandraNamespaceHandler.java You can repro pretty easily: install git, configure VisualDiffer as a difftool, clone a git repo, make a change to a file, then issue the command "git difftool --dir-diff". |
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My fault, I've a bash alias using "--no-symlinks" for difftool. You are right, I've reproduced the bug and fixed, too. If you want I can send to you a version to test. |
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That's ok. I can workaround until I get the update, unless you want to send me a version with a preview of http://bugs.visualdiffer.com/view.php?id=190, too! :) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2014-01-15 17:30 | matthewadams | New Issue | |
| 2014-01-15 17:30 | matthewadams | Status | new => assigned |
| 2014-01-15 17:30 | matthewadams | Assigned To | => admin |
| 2014-01-15 17:30 | matthewadams | File Added: Screen Shot 2014-01-15 at 10.20.45 AM.png | |
| 2014-01-15 17:34 | admin | Note Added: 0000450 | |
| 2014-01-15 17:40 | matthewadams | Note Added: 0000451 | |
| 2014-01-15 17:42 | admin | Note Added: 0000452 | |
| 2014-01-15 17:43 | matthewadams | Note Added: 0000453 | |
| 2014-01-16 09:10 | admin | Note Added: 0000454 | |
| 2014-01-16 13:08 | matthewadams | Note Added: 0000457 | |
| 2014-01-16 16:04 | admin | Note Added: 0000458 | |
| 2014-01-16 17:11 | matthewadams | Note Added: 0000461 | |
| 2014-01-16 18:14 | admin | Status | assigned => confirmed |
| 2014-01-18 08:20 | admin | Status | confirmed => closed |
| 2014-01-18 08:20 | admin | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2014-01-18 08:20 | admin | Product Version | 1.5.7 => 1.5.8 |
| 2014-01-18 08:23 | admin | Product Version | 1.5.8 => |
| 2014-01-18 08:23 | admin | Fixed in Version | => 1.5.8 |
