bug#2869: 23.0.91; ediff-revision via TRAMP broken

[David Abrahams]

On Apr 5, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:

> David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
> > On a Mac, open an svn-controlled file via TRAMP to a Linux machine.
> > `M-x ediff-revision <RET> <RET> <RET>'
> >
> > This was the backtrace:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integerp nil)
> >  signal(wrong-type-argument (integerp nil))
> >  byte-code("Â!ˆÃ  @       A\"‡" [tmpfile err delete-file signal] 3)
> >  tramp-handle-file-local-copy("/ssh:user@host.obfuscated.sorry:/home/boost/searchme_webmap/tools/common.mk 
> > .~3281~")
>
> Unfortunately, the byte code does not show exactly the function  
> where the
> error appears. OTOH, there were some problems in Tramp setting file
> permissions, when `file-modes' of a certain file returned nil. I've  
> made
> Tramp more robust in this case. Could you, please, check with a recent
> Emacs 23.0.92 (checkout shall be newer than this message)?

I'm testing the latest snapshot from http://porkrind.org/emacs/ 
index.cgi right now; I'll get back to you.

Thanks,

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David Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://boostpro.com