gdiff-ext and files on remote filesystmes

[Simon Wiles]

Is it possible to have gdiff-ext work with files on remote (specifically sftp gvfs-fuse mounted) filesystems?  It's actually got to the stage where I occasionally use sshfs to mount a remote fs, just so I can browse with nautilus and use diff-ext easily.

I suspect this could be added as a fairly straightforward option in the config screen (cf. the "Advanced Conditions" tab of the nautilus-actions package).

Thanks!

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[Sergey Zorin]

Simon,
As long as remote file system is mounted locally gdiff-ext should work fine. No additional options are required.
Otherwise I would need support from the diff tool to make this option available. So far I do not know any Gnome diff tool that provides this kind of support. One exception may be kdiff3, that do work with remote files.  To support kdiff3 integration with Nautilus I do have to add an option.

Serg.

[Simon Wiles]

Hi Serg, thanks for taking the time to respond :)

I'm using gdiff-ext with Meld.  Meld has no problem opening files on an sftp-mounted drive (i just navigate to $HOME/.gvfs/).  I can construct command lines like this, too:

    meld "/home/simon/.gvfs/SFTP for simon on host/home/simon/file1" "/home/simon/.gvfs/SFTP for simon on host/home/simon/file2"

The problem is simply that, using Nautilus and gdiff-ext, no "compare" or "compare later" etc. options appear on the context menu which files on sftp-mount are selected.

Is this problem peculiar to me and my system?  I could write a script and/or nautilus extension to handle this, but it seems that it ought to be handled by gdiff-ext, which is why I posted.

Would appreciate your thoughts!

thanks again,

simon