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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: magit diff not showing diff
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:49:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761jciyli.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAOm4EMsjzVqgKY4KA8J46chi7sn0PhJ-DU63P7UA1Z+A8Y9qPw@mail.gmail.com

Shiyuan <gshy2014@gmail.com> writes:

> In the *magit-log* buffer,  select two commits and diff them(by first going
> to one commit, press the key `.` and then move the cursor to another
> commit, then press the key `=`), then magit opens a `magit-diff` buffer
> where a summary of difference is shown and each difference is shown hunk by
> hunk. If I go to a hunk, and press `e`, Magit opens Ediff, but in  the
> Ediff, the difference is not shown correctly. The Ediff Control panel shows
> zero difference and the mode lines are "fileA.{nil}" and "fileB.{nil}".
> Ediff doesn't pick up the diff correctly.  Is Magit supposed to work that
> way? Do I need any extra setup?

Looks like a bug to me.  AFAIK, the Magit maintainer wants to rewrite
ediff integration:

  https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/1261

so I don't know if its worth reporting.  Using D instead of = works for
me; you can use commit hashs as input.

Michael. 




      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02 22:51 magit diff not showing diff Shiyuan
2014-07-04 21:49 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]

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