Hi All,

Is there a way to stop Meld from auto expanding directory trees when performing diff compare

This can be annoying when you are comparing big project like Linux sources and having to spend loads of time closing directory that are of no interest.

Many thanks in advance.

Ola

The version of Meld I am using (3.14.2) only expands a directory on Directory Comparison if that directory contains differing files/subdirectories between the two sources, including if the dates are different.

Are you sure that there are absolutely no differences between the content and metadata of the files/subdirectory entries in your directories that auto-expand?

Hi hydrurga,
Thanks for responding. My issue is not that meld does not expand directories. My issue is that once you initiate a compare. Meld recursively expand all directories where it detects changes. This is fine but I think there should also be an option that just marks these directories as different without having to expanding them.

I find that sometimes when I am comparing large code base such as Linux Kernel in order to determine my current position I have to collapse each tree sub-directories which can be time consuming.

I am currently using version 3.17.1. I but I also tried the same version you are using just in case they exhibit different behaviours but they don't.

At the back of my mind I was sure that behaviour I was describing existing on earlier Meld builds so I just been few a of the old releases and came to notice that the last version that exhibits this function is 1.8.6.

You can start Meld as follows:
When meld initially performs its scan all the sub-directories under linux directories are auto expanding if you then click on the expand icon all the sub-directories gets collapsed with the exception of the top directory in this case. But all the other directories with change are then reflected with little blob indicating changes.

This behaviour is different from version 3.xx upwards.

Ok, I see. I don't think there is an option for that. Have you thought about contacting the developer Kai Willadsen and asking him if he could add it in?

Thanks hydrurga I shall contact him.

Great. Let us know how you get on!

Hi Hydrurga,

Please see Kai Willadsen response for meld auto expand request https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776828
Regards

Ola

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Thanks Ola. You gave it a go but no joy it seems. How's your programming ability? ;-)

Hi Hydrurga,
Sorry for late response been very busy. Programming in C/C++ reasonably good, I have being doing it for very close to 2 decades. Background is Electronics engineering and then micro-controller with or without RTOS but fairly new to Embedded Linux.

Nice. Perhaps you might consider, as a side project when you're less busy, downloading the source code for Meld, modifying it to prevent auto-expansion and then recompiling it. I don't think it would be too difficult (maybe even a judiciously-placed /* */ will do the trick).

Okay will do