GNU bug report logs - #24089
25.1; Dired: diff error on = <RET> if the file has a backup inside .~/

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Reported by: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorge13515 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:43:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 24089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorge13515 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24089: 25.1; Dired: diff error on = <RET> if the file has a
 backup inside .~/
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 08:43:30 -0300

On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 18:05 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It seems dired-diff was not prepared to deal with the situation where
> the backup file is in another directory.  Does the patch below produce
> good results?
In my brief testing, the patch solves the problem only when = <RET> is invoked
with point at the original file.  If it is invoked with point at the backup
file (inside .~), a diff error still occurs.

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