Stefan Küng wrote:
> Randall Campbell wrote:
>> Not sure that this is really a bug, probably more of a feature
>> request. I am using the latest release.
>>
>> I have two XML files and TortoiseMerge shows the first lines as being
>> different even though they appear identical. Ignoring white space does
>> not cause them to be shown as identical. Ignoring line feed
>> differences does not show them as being identical either.
>>
>> It turns out that there were three unprintable characters at the
>> beginning of the line. It would be very handy if there were a way to
>
> Those unprintable characters, are those maybe UTF8 BOM (hex: ef bb ef)?
> In that case, TortoiseMerge just 'ignores' them when showing the
> contents of the file but uses them to find out the encoding of the file.
>
> Maybe we should show somewhere if a file has a BOM or not...
>
>> flag unprintable characters so that we can see that they are there.
>> Another very useful option would be able to display a hex view of the
>> file with the diffs highlighted. In this way, we could actually see
>> the hex character differences.
>
> Now that would be a huge new feature (hex view). What do others think?
> Would that be a feature that others might need too? How often would you
> need it really?
Well, it could work on binary files-- which might be useful in
some cases...
But I don't think I'd really ever use it as part of a source code
control operation...
If you were going to invest a big chunk of time into
TortoiseMerge, I can think of several things I'd rather
have :-)
Thanks,
Joseph
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Received on Tue Aug 22 18:43:42 2006