Problem with magit-ediff

[theturingmachine]

Since some time ago (maybe 2 months) I sometimes can't do magit-ediff
on some files:

I always get the following error:

string-match-p: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

I tried to debug this and it seems that the function (magit-current-
section) is returning nil.

I'm using the latest magit from the git repo (as of today)

Any ideas?

Greetings

[Yann Hodique]

> Any ideas?

well, magit-ediff is not obviously broken (I'm using it regularly), so
I guess we'll need some more details to investigate.
If you could provide a complete recipe (including the state of the
repository) to reproduce the issue, that would be ideal.
Otherwise, please at least provide a complete backtrace, using
`toggle-debug-on-error'.

Thanks,

Yann.

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[theturingmachine]

This is my emacs version:
GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-apple-darwin10.8.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
of 2012-01-16 on xxx

It was also happening before on 24.0.91

I tried to get a backtrace but with toggle-debug-on-error it hangs...

Any clues, how can I provide you with more info?

On Jan 18, 12:46 pm, Yann Hodique <yann.hodi...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Yann Hodique]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:25 PM, theturingmachine
<theturin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is my emacs version:
> GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-apple-darwin10.8.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
> of 2012-01-16 on xxx
>
> It was also happening before on 24.0.91
>
> I tried to get a backtrace but with toggle-debug-on-error it hangs...
>
> Any clues, how can I provide you with more info?

If you can provide the repository (or steps to build a repository that
behaves badly), and precise instructions on how to reproduce, we'll be
able to investigate.

Yann.

[theturingmachine]

For me I could reproduce like this:

clone this repo: git://github.com/xing/amiando.git

git co -b magit-test v0.3.6
git cherry-pick e205ee0

This will give you a conflict, then on emacs on the conflicting file
"lib/amiando.rb" hit "e" key.

Hope this helps.

Greetings and thanks

On Jan 18, 5:31 pm, Yann Hodique <yann.hodi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:25 PM, theturingmachine
>

[York Zhao]

I have experienced this problem rencently and had reported with details to this
group:

http://groups.google.com/group/magit/browse_thread/thread/cabe07cb5bcbcd1f

The problem dissapeared after using newer Emacs commits from git.

York