Bug 97928

Summary: kompare fails detecting destination files for cvs diff|kompare -o -
Product: [Applications] kompare Reporter: Anders Lund <anderslund>
Component: generalAssignee: Kompare bugs <kompare-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: andyparkins, esigra, finex, nbigaouette
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Anders Lund 2005-01-26 12:10:12 UTC 
Version:           3.3 (using KDE 3.3.91 (beta1), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.10-gentoo-r5

When using the command
$ cvs diff|kompare -o -
which is used as an example in the help text, kompare fails to find the destination file, which is obviously in the working directory.

$ csv diff file|kompare -b file -
or
$ cvs diff|kompare -b . -

doesn't work either.
Comment 1 Jeff Snyder 2005-06-06 21:45:11 UTC 
This is gonna be a little spammy... I'm reassigning everything that's currently 
assigned to bruggie (who's been the default assignee for bugs since time began) 
to the new list address. 
 
Bruggie: if you're working on one or more of these atm, please snatch 'em 
back.. 
 
Everyone, esp. Joshua and Bruggie: if this genrates 33 mails, my sincere 
apologies..
Comment 2 Winfried Dobbe 2006-01-15 22:32:48 UTC 
*** Bug 120032 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Christopher J. Bottaro 2006-05-07 19:35:11 UTC 
Is anything being done to fix this?  It was opened a year ago and it still persists.  It has 55 votes also...
Comment 4 Yun-Fong Loh 2007-07-12 18:24:17 UTC 
It seems to work if you do:

cvs diff -u | kompare -o -
Comment 5 Raúl 2007-11-15 16:19:28 UTC 
So, is this really working? is there a workaround?
Comment 6 Christopher J. Bottaro 2007-11-22 21:19:46 UTC 
svn diff | kompare -o -

works for me, thanks.
Comment 7 Agoston Bejo 2008-01-02 17:31:41 UTC 
This also works nicely:

cvs diff -u file >diffile
kompare -b file diffile

I suggest correcting the example in the help text to use 'cvs diff -u' and that's all.
Comment 8 FiNeX 2009-01-04 15:56:31 UTC 
It seems that the help text doesn't have anymore the example.