Unable to use file filter to filter directories

[Ben Joldersma-4]

First off, 

Absolutely *love* meld.  Thanks so much for making such a great tool.  All my co-workers are jealous (who don't use linux that is!)

We've got some third party libraries in our source tree that we rarely change.  I'd like to exclude them, because they contain several thousand files and it takes a while to do the initial scan.  I tried setting some variations of what I think are valid shell globs in the file filters section, where directory to exclude is named 'foo':

1. 'foo'
2. 'foo/*'
3. 'foo/**/*'
4. '/foo/'
5. 'path/to/foo/*'

I'm not too sure what else I can try.  I disabled the version control exclude pattern, but it didn't seem to include the .svn directories either.  

Any thoughts?  Am I missing something?  Is there a bug?

Thanks again for such an incredibly useful tool - 1.3 is awesome!

--ben

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[Kai Willadsen-2]

2009/9/19 Ben Joldersma <ben.joldersma@...>:

> First off,
> Absolutely *love* meld.  Thanks so much for making such a great tool.  All
> my co-workers are jealous (who don't use linux that is!)
> We've got some third party libraries in our source tree that we rarely
> change.  I'd like to exclude them, because they contain several thousand
> files and it takes a while to do the initial scan.  I tried setting some
> variations of what I think are valid shell globs in the file filters
> section, where directory to exclude is named 'foo':
>
> 'foo'
> 'foo/*'
> 'foo/**/*'
> '/foo/'
> 'path/to/foo/*'
>
> I'm not too sure what else I can try.  I disabled the version control
> exclude pattern, but it didn't seem to include the .svn directories either.
>
> Any thoughts?  Am I missing something?  Is there a bug?
> Thanks again for such an incredibly useful tool - 1.3 is awesome!

So I can make this work for me by defining and enabling the filter
"foo", but I have to restart Meld after creating the new file filter.
The fact that it needs to be restarted is definitely a bug. However,
if it doesn't work for you even after restarting, then there may well
be a second bug hanging around. Feel free to file these in bugzilla.

cheers,
Kai
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[Ben Joldersma-4]

Unfortunately I am unable to use these steps to success.

I was wondering - maybe my configuration settings from 1.2 are conflicting somehow?  I tried removing them, but I found them in several places - .gconf/apps/meld, .gconf/apps/gnome-settings, ~/.gnome2.  i tried removing all of them, but the settings still show up.

I will file a bug unless people think that is worth trying first.

Thanks for the help!

--ben

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai.willadsen@...> wrote:

2009/9/19 Ben Joldersma <ben.joldersma@...>:

> First off,
> Absolutely *love* meld.  Thanks so much for making such a great tool.  All
> my co-workers are jealous (who don't use linux that is!)
> We've got some third party libraries in our source tree that we rarely
> change.  I'd like to exclude them, because they contain several thousand
> files and it takes a while to do the initial scan.  I tried setting some
> variations of what I think are valid shell globs in the file filters
> section, where directory to exclude is named 'foo':
>
> 'foo'
> 'foo/*'
> 'foo/**/*'
> '/foo/'
> 'path/to/foo/*'
>
> I'm not too sure what else I can try.  I disabled the version control
> exclude pattern, but it didn't seem to include the .svn directories either.
>
> Any thoughts?  Am I missing something?  Is there a bug?
> Thanks again for such an incredibly useful tool - 1.3 is awesome!

So I can make this work for me by defining and enabling the filter
"foo", but I have to restart Meld after creating the new file filter.
The fact that it needs to be restarted is definitely a bug. However,
if it doesn't work for you even after restarting, then there may well
be a second bug hanging around. Feel free to file these in bugzilla.

cheers,
Kai

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[Kai Willadsen-2]

2009/9/22 Ben Joldersma <ben.joldersma@...>:
> Unfortunately I am unable to use these steps to success.
> I was wondering - maybe my configuration settings from 1.2 are conflicting
> somehow?  I tried removing them, but I found them in several places -
> .gconf/apps/meld, .gconf/apps/gnome-settings, ~/.gnome2.  i tried removing
> all of them, but the settings still show up.
> I will file a bug unless people think that is worth trying first.

If this worked with 1.2 and doesn't with 1.3.1, there could be an
issue with the gconf/configparser selection. Either way, file a bug
and maybe we can figure out what the problem is.

cheers,
Kai
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