Difftool doesn't open, and command line hangs

Question

I have Meld configured as my difftool. I'm pretty sure it's configured correctly, because if I do git config -l, I get

merge.tool=meld
diff.tool=meld
mergetool.meld.path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\Meld.exe
difftool.meld.path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\Meld.exe

The setup is the same to my mergetool, and the mergetool does work correctly.

I'm trying to compare my current files to my last commit. When I do git difftool, the command line says

Viewing (1/9): 'myfile.cs'

But nothing else happens. Meld doesn't open. The command line also appears frozen, and I have to close Powershell.

How do I get the Meld to open correctly?

Answer 1

I experienced similar issues recently when comparing two (binary) zip files instead of comparing the extracted contents (which are almost similar). I guess the problem occurs if files with too large differences are compared.

By stopping meld and by removing ~/.local/share/meld/recent-* , I managed to get meld running again.