Diff Tool Question

dprice · Post by **dprice** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:04 am

I know I'm probably missing something, but does the SourceGear diff tool provide any VSS interaction like check-in, check-out, etc.? I really missed being able to diff a folder for differences and check them out directly in the diff tool and not try to match up filenames in SOS. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!
Derek

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:43 pm

Not really. The SOS tool doesn't have any transaction capabilities. But I'll log this as a feature request for a future release. I can't guarantee we'll implement it, but we'll take a look at the feasibility.

dprice · Post by **dprice** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:22 am

Hi Linda,

I hope you can elevate this. We get regular ftp source code dumps from our contractors and we do a bulk check-in. VSS's diff tool really integrates well, but your tool does not (the diff stuff works great!). I usually end up switching back and forth between diff and sos to make sure I'm getting all the files. It's a little painful and error-prone.

Thanks!
Derek

mat · Post by **mat** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:07 am

The ability to check out files from the DiffMerge window would be HUGE. I second the feature request.

Many of the people we have using Vault in our organization don't have the source code control mentality so quite often I need to go sort them out. The quickest way to do that is to do a diff but going back into the Vault UI to after I've found a file that needs to be checked out/checked in is onerous especially given the number of levels we have in our source tree.