Bug#687111: meld: version control browser fails with subversion 1.7

[Michael Biebl]

On 09.09.2012 22:25, Neil Williams wrote:
> Package: meld
> Version: 1.6.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> After the working copy is upgraded to svn 1.7, all the .svn directories
> vanish and this appears to be confusing meld.
> 
> I frequently start meld from the command line to see the changes within
> a subdirectory of a working copy. I have previously seen *only* the
> specified directory compared by meld. Once the working copy is upgraded
> to svn 1.7, meld crawls all the way back up the tree to find the top
> level .svn directory and then runs the comparison from the top directory.
> On a very large repository, this stalls the browser and provides a
> completely useless view of the entire repository instead of the
> specific directory supplied on the command line.
> 
> subversion package:
> subversion     1.7.5-1
> 
> It would be appreciated if this could be fixed in wheezy via backports
> once the fix is in unstable - I know I'm going to need this functionality
> once I migrate my development platform to Wheezy. As it only affects one
> VCS, I don't see this as RC but if the fix is trivial, perhaps meld can
> be unblocked for this important bug.

The subversion version in wheezy is 1.6. Is this planned to change?


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