Ever since upgrading to v4.1.1, I've found the diff tool to be frustrating. It's highlighting space differences between files, even when I say Hide Unimportant Details. It's difficult to jump around to find the REAL differences. What am I missing?
(Granted, many files are the same space and everything, but when you're trying to see the real differences in files that SHOULD be the same but differe only in space, I'm finding the newest version less useful than the old 3.x version.)
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Can you give me some more details.
Can you give me some specifics?
With the 4.x version, we have a Ruleset mechanism that allows
you to characterize file content as either Literals, Comments, or
everything else. Each of these can be set independently to consider
changes in whitespace as important or unimportant. Then the "Hide
Unimportant Changes" menu item will hide/show the unimportant
changes. (It's more general than what I've described here, but that's
the main idea.)
Can you tell me what kind of source files you are looking at?
Does the Ruleset indicator at the bottom of the screen recognize
the file types? You might look at the default ruleset or create a
custom ruleset (using the Options dialog).
jeff
With the 4.x version, we have a Ruleset mechanism that allows
you to characterize file content as either Literals, Comments, or
everything else. Each of these can be set independently to consider
changes in whitespace as important or unimportant. Then the "Hide
Unimportant Changes" menu item will hide/show the unimportant
changes. (It's more general than what I've described here, but that's
the main idea.)
Can you tell me what kind of source files you are looking at?
Does the Ruleset indicator at the bottom of the screen recognize
the file types? You might look at the default ruleset or create a
custom ruleset (using the Options dialog).
jeff
Re: Can you give me some more details.
Hrmm... In this case I was looking a machine.config file, which is really an XML file but I understand why it's not recognized as such. I changed the ruleset to XML and things improved considerably.
I'm still not 100% thrilled with the differences between 3.x and 4.x in this tool but perhaps I'm just failing to appreciate its benefits....yet.
Thanks for the ruleset tip. It wasn't clear to me I needed to use that (unimportant differences translated to in my brain to whitespace differences, regardless of file type).
I'm still not 100% thrilled with the differences between 3.x and 4.x in this tool but perhaps I'm just failing to appreciate its benefits....yet.
Thanks for the ruleset tip. It wasn't clear to me I needed to use that (unimportant differences translated to in my brain to whitespace differences, regardless of file type).