Comment 3 for bug 537270

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Gary van der Merwe (garyvdm) wrote : Re: [Bug 537270] Re: bzr diff --using meld has stopped working

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Scott James Remnant
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> I don't have any package installed called this, and indeed can't find
> one named that in the archive.

Scott: I don't think that this plugin was ever "debianized". Hence it
is likely that you manually put a copy of this plugin in
~/.bazaar/plugins. The behavior you described accurately describes the
behavior of this plugin. (https://launchpad.net/bzr-difftools)

The plugin achieves this behavior by writing the whole trees to a temp
dirs on disk. When one of the trees is the working tree, it just
passes the working tree, rather than a temp dir. This results in non
versioned, and ignored files showing up in the diff.

I intend on addressing this issue by fixing bug 490212. This will
address the usability issue of only been able to see 1 file diff at a
time. I did not realize that there is an issue with add/removed files.
I will give some thought to this.