Peter Yamamoto wrote:
> If you have not had the pleasure of a manual align, I highly suggest
> you download beyond compare and try it.
>
> A typical use case for coders is when somebody moves code (and
> possibly modifies it as well).
>
> When doing the diff, most diffs just show this as a new block. (when
> two users do similar stuff, then you really need to be able to align
> the two blocks to diff them).
From my point of view, if two users do similar stuff you have bigger
problems than diffing those files. That means you have serious problems
with communication in your team.
> Manual align simply means to start (re)diffing the two files from
> this point on (where you aligned them).
>
> So if somebody moved the block of code at line 35000, to line 560,
> for example, I could manually align 3500 with 560 and be able to
> easily see if the block of code was modified or not (as well as have
> all left/right diff/editing features available).
>
> Without this feature, it is very difficult/time consuming/error prone
> to evaluate such diffs.
>
> That's one very typical, very useful, use case example.
>
> Another one is checking/verifying/diffing copy and paste blocks.
> Since you can align the original with the new paste, you can more
> easily verify that anything that should have been changed in the
> pasted version (for example) was changed from the original.
>
> Another one is when using a code section as a template in another
> place. Even though the files are very different, you can align the
> place of interest to where you want to add the similar code and use
> the original to see what has changed etc.
>
> My work may be chaotic, but it would also be much more error-prone
> w/o this feature!-) Basically I don't see how any coder lives without
> it. Doing this "manually" is just error-prone (but in my experience,
> people who don't know of this feature/functionality simply are
> ignorant to the process/workflow of actually checking these types of
> diffs and pay for it with bugs).
I think that such a feature is way out of TMerge's league. We should
keep TMerge simple - for such complicated features you can use
commercial tools.
Stefan
--
___
oo // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile"
(_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN
\ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control
/_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Received on Mon Oct 16 20:37:29 2006