From: Alan Blotz <work@blotz.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git difftool: No such file or directory
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:38:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <176caa21-0232-9f21-7a8d-af136754e354@blotz.org> (raw)
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Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
mkdir broken-diff
cd broken-diff
git init
mkdir dir1
mkdir dir2
touch dir1/orig
cd dir2/
ln -s ../dir1/orig sym
cd ..
git add dir*
git ci -m "init"
git checkout -b b
git rm dir2/sym
git ci -m "remove"
git difftool -d master HEAD
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
git difftool shall compare both branches.
What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
git difftool prints an error:
fatal: could not open '/tmp/git-difftool.l4UM7e/left/dir2/sym' for writing: No such file or directory
Please review the rest of the bug report below.
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[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.31.1
cpu: x86_64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
uname: Linux 5.12.12-300.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 18 14:30:51 UTC 2021 x86_64
compiler info: gnuc: 11.0
libc info: glibc: 2.33
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash
[Enabled Hooks]
next reply other threads:[~2021-06-30 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-30 9:38 Alan Blotz [this message]
2021-07-01 0:35 ` git difftool: No such file or directory Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-08-30 0:32 ` David Aguilar
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