ah of course that's what it is. that's what I get for being too lazy to
install a diff tool on windows!! sorry to make you debug that one , things
are working great now.
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If you have MSVC, you've also got Windiff, if I recall correctly. If not, you can get it free from the Microsoft site.
Windiff has two flaws, but otherwise it's been very useful to me:
1) you can can't select text for copying
2) it gets confused by periods, sometimes treating it like a \n
On the plus side, you can use it to compare entire directory trees, letting you drill down into specific files where you see differences. And you can separately choose to see all files, or only ones added, or only deleted or whatever, in any combination.
ah of course that's what it is. that's what I get for being too lazy to
install a diff tool on windows!! sorry to make you debug that one , things
are working great now.
<snip>
If you have MSVC, you've also got Windiff, if I recall correctly. If not, you can get it free from the Microsoft site.
Windiff has two flaws, but otherwise it's been very useful to me:
1) you can can't select text for copying
2) it gets confused by periods, sometimes treating it like a \n
On the plus side, you can use it to compare entire directory trees, letting you drill down into specific files where you see differences. And you can separately choose to see all files, or only ones added, or only deleted or whatever, in any combination.
I personally like BeyondCompare, which is provided for me at work. It does everything Windiff does (I think) and more. It's been invaluable for troubleshooting some dumb things I've coded.
thanks for the suggestions guys; I don’t seem to have windiff but I’ll check it out. I’ve been working with the gnu tools for linux / os x for so long, but I apparently can’t avoid learning the windows toolchain any longer!
ah of course that’s what it is. that’s what I get for being too lazy to
install a diff tool on windows!! sorry to make you debug that one , things
are working great now.
If you have MSVC, you’ve also got Windiff, if I recall correctly. If not, you can get it free from the Microsoft site.
Windiff has two flaws, but otherwise it’s been very useful to me:
you can can’t select text for copying
it gets confused by periods, sometimes treating it like a \n
On the plus side, you can use it to compare entire directory trees, letting you drill down into specific files where you see differences. And you can separately choose to see all files, or only ones added, or only deleted or whatever, in any combination.
I personally like BeyondCompare, which is provided for me at work. It does everything Windiff does (I think) and more. It’s been invaluable for troubleshooting some dumb things I’ve coded.
ah of course that's what it is. that's what I get for being too lazy to
install a diff tool on windows!! sorry to make you debug that one , things
are working great now.
<snip>
If you have MSVC, you've also got Windiff, if I recall correctly. If not, you can get it free from the Microsoft site.
Windiff has two flaws, but otherwise it's been very useful to me:
1) you can can't select text for copying
2) it gets confused by periods, sometimes treating it like a \n
On the plus side, you can use it to compare entire directory trees, letting you drill down into specific files where you see differences. And you can separately choose to see all files, or only ones added, or only deleted or whatever, in any combination.
I like DiffMerge from SourceGear.com. It's a wxWidgets app so it's available on all the platforms I need it, has a fairly simple and intuitive UI and is easy to use, and it's free. I have my SVN and Hg tools configured to use it.