Re: AW: Line numbers in TortoiseMerge

Stefan Küng wrote:
> André Hänsel wrote:
>
>> What I meant is:
>>
>> I compare two files A and B, irrelevant whether they are just two
>> files or
>> whether they are Working Base and Working Copy.
>> The lines that are marked with a minus (-) in the left pane have no line
>> numbers shown. But when I open the left file in a text editor, they
>> have of
>> course line numbers.
>
>
> Sure they have. But TortoiseMerge is not a file viewer but a diff
> viewer. And the 'resulting' diff wouldn't have line numbers there.
>
> Actually, we once had the line numbers as you seem to want it. But users
> complained that those linenumbers weren't really useful. So now, the
> line numbers show the numbers as the resulting file would have it
> (especially useful if you're doing a three-way diff).

How about showing the real file line numbers for 2-way diff and doing it
the way it is for 3-way diff?

Simon

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