[Bug 267151] New: Kompare does not understand a diff with skipped originals

[Christopher Yeleighton]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267151

           Summary: Kompare does not understand a diff with skipped
                    originals
           Product: kompare
           Version: 4.0.0
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: parser
        AssignedTo: kompare-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl


Version:           4.0.0 (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

I often create an override directory structure containing only modified files. 
When I create a diff of that, I do not want to have the unmodified original
files deleted, so I ask Kompare not to treat missing files as empty.  When
Kompare is done with the diff, it reports the result as "malformed".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Tell Kompare to compare 1 to 2 ignoring missing files.

Actual Results:  
Warning: malformed diff.

Expected Results:  
Some less scary way to express the observation, possibly without an intervening
dialogue box.



OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop
Compiler: gcc

(Note that the actual diff contains localized messages from diff that cannot be
turned off AFAIK; in order to recognize the format, Kompare would have to get
text from diff or else run a micro diff experiment somewhere aside)

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