Public bug reported:
Meld fails to see file differences in a directory compare under Ubuntu
18.04. I was comparing compat-
wireless-2014-03-31/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ and compat-
wireless-2017-11-01/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ and Meld said there
were no differences. I tried from the GUI, and I tried from the command
line with both relative and full paths. In all cases Meld found no
differences in the directories. If I substitute diff for meld in the
command line, differences are found in the files in those directories.
Co-workers who use Fedora do not have this meld problem. For them, meld
reports differences between files in those same two directories.
Note - in the Ubuntu Software Manager comments for Meld, someone else
has the same issue of directory compares falsely reporting no difference
under Ubuntu 18.04 (Roger's comment says "Does not work. Ubuntu 18.04.
Check carefully. Says directories are same, even when they contain
different numbers of file.")
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and Meld 3.18.0-6 from ubuntu-bionic-universe.
Two co-workers for whom meld directory compare is working are using #1
Fedora 25 w/ meld 3.16.3, and #2 Fedora 28 w/ meld 3.18.0. I am the
only person in the office using Ubuntu.
** Affects: meld (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Meld fails to see file differences in a directory compare under Ubuntu
18.04. I was comparing compat-
wireless-2014-03-31/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ and compat-
wireless-2017-11-01/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ and Meld said there
were no differences. I tried from the GUI, and I tried from the command
line with both relative and full paths. In all cases Meld found no
differences in the directories. If I substitute diff for meld in the
command line, differences are found in the files in those directories.
Co-workers who use Fedora do not have this meld problem. For them, meld
- reports differences between files in those same two directories. Note -
- in the Ubuntu Software Manager comments for Meld, someone else has the
- same issue of directory compares falsely reporting no difference under
- Ubuntu 18.04.
+ reports differences between files in those same two directories.
+
+ Note - in the Ubuntu Software Manager comments for Meld, someone else
+ has the same issue of directory compares falsely reporting no difference
+ under Ubuntu 18.04 (Roger's comment says "Does not work. Ubuntu 18.04.
+ Check carefully. Says directories are same, even when they contain
+ different numbers of file.")
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and Meld 3.18.0-6 from ubuntu-bionic-universe.
Two co-workers for whom meld directory compare is working are using #1
Fedora 25 w/ meld 3.16.3, and #2 Fedora 28 w/ meld 3.18.0. I am the
only person in the office using Ubuntu.
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Meld directory compare broken in Ubuntu 18.04
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