Re: bug report: wrong extension specific program started

On 22 February 2012 17:35, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22.02.2012 16:07, Stepan Hrbek wrote:
>> How to reproduce: 1.install TortoiseSVN 1.7.5 (current) 1.add
>> plain-text file "doc" to working copy 2.from context menu of "doc",
>> select "diff with previous version"
>>
>> What happens: -program associated to ".doc" is started (in my case,
>> it's LibreOffice)
>>
>> What is expected: -file "doc" does not have any extension (especially
>> not ".doc"), so default handler should be used, treating file as
>> plain-text
>>
>> Other settings, probably irrelevant: -OS:vista x64 -LibreOffice 3.4
>> installed, registered for ".doc" extension
>>
>> TortoiseSVN did work as expected until late 1.6.x, I noticed problem
>> after upgrade to early 1.7.x. Problem is still present in current
>> 1.7.5.
>>
>> Please tell me, is it bug?
>
> Not a bug but a feature.
> Settings dialog->diff viewer->advanced
> there are all the pre-registered diff scripts listed, and *.doc is one
> of them.

But it's not a .doc file, it is just called 'doc' with no extension,
so the .doc script should not be used.

Simon

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