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Bug 334998

Summary:	Compare with Branch / Tag doesn't allow editing.
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	James Blackburn <jamesblackburn+eclipse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	hjg.com.ar, mathias.kinzler, matthias.sohn, mn, robin
Version:	0.11
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
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Description James Blackburn

2011-01-21 06:54:08 EST

Eclipse EGit (Incubation)	0.11.0.201101181937	org.eclipse.egit.feature.group
  Eclipse EGit - Source (Incubation)	0.11.0.201101181937	org.eclipse.egit.source.feature.group
  Eclipse JGit (Incubation)	0.11.0.201101171634	org.eclipse.jgit.feature.group
  Eclipse JGit - Source (Incubation)	0.11.0.201101171634	org.eclipse.jgit.source.feature.group

The new compare with > "branch or tag" functionality seems to use the latest local history as the left hand side.  This prevents editing.  
Conversely compare with > HEAD does allow editing.

Comment 1 Mathias Kinzler

2011-01-25 08:48:01 EST

Code review at

http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,2326

Comment 2 Matthias Sohn

2011-01-25 18:22:37 EST

merged as eb2151b248a9725704181db27351b3adead5e44d

Comment 3 James Blackburn

2011-09-29 07:50:46 EDT

This still seems to happen in 1.1.0.

In a source file:
  Right Click > Compare with > Branch, Tag or Reference
Choose another branch, and the compare editor opened has Local History on the LHS.

Same happens using the context menu in a resource navigator.

Comment 4 Hernan Gonzalez

2011-11-13 15:50:17 EST

Indeed, it's still happening -systematically- here (1.1.0 with Indigo)

Comment 5 Kevin Sawicki

2011-11-13 22:05:58 EST

I think this may be a duplicate of bug345409 which was recently fixed.

Can you try with the latest 1.2 nightly?

Comment 6 Mykola Nikishov

2012-03-03 11:12:56 EST

[Batch change] Remove passed Target Milestones

If anyone on CC list is going to fix/implement this, feel free to assign a new, post-1.3/2.0, target milestone.

Comment 7 Robin Stocker

2013-09-27 12:24:38 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 345409 ***