Re: Gitk "External diff" broken when using worktree

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 29, 2016, 09:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AJr8diCyv=ZfADtm=Aw96RjAHd7ZD2xR6VEQ-ZXQTCBg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAC4jX8E0URpxYmTU96xaFh-zEfT_q8RNfGy53DoNV5OFNjgxbQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Daryl Van Den Brink <daryl.vandenbrink@maptek.com.au> wrote:

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> I've done that, and here are the two arguments that it gives to the diff tool:
>
> From the main repository (in which case the it works):
>
> .git/.gitk-tmp.CCxPmN/1/[1980e260494cbd225d482b5d962e77bdcdb2321c]
> RemoteTransaction.C
> .git/.gitk-tmp.CCxPmN/1/[2759bf6053e73cb5f7c11c646aee206242db2cd4]
> RemoteTransaction.C
>
> From the auxiliary worktree (when the diff doesn't work):
>
> /home/daryl.vandenbrink/git-work/mdf_products/.git/worktrees/mdf2/.gitk-tmp.ZEdGpi/1/[1980e260494cbd225d482b5d962e77bdcdb2321c]
> RemoteTransaction.C
> /home/daryl.vandenbrink/git-work/mdf_products/.git/worktrees/mdf2/.gitk-tmp.ZEdGpi/1/[2759bf6053e73cb5f7c11c646aee206242db2cd4]
> RemoteTransaction.C
>
> I hope that helps.

I can only guess that the content in those two files are the same. Which mean the bug is somewhere else. I'm afraid I can't help further because I'm not familiar with gitk (not even its user for that matter)

-- 
Duy