Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

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re: Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

Any chance we can BeyondCompare to do the diffs? — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:56:03 GMT

As a HUGE fan of BeyondCompare, any way we can get the differences piped into BeyondCompare's folder-difference mode?

re: Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

bharry — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:00:51 GMT

We already support a configurable diff tool for file comparing (Tools -> Options). I think it's a good point that we should do this for folder comparing too. I'll pass the feedback on to the developers. Thanks,

Brian

re: Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

Jarle Nygård — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:08:25 GMT

Why, oh why, would you go for a Registry Configuration source? Why not use the standard .Net way of .config Xml file(s)?

re: Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

bharry — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:24:43 GMT

Well, that's a good question and I'm not sure we put a ton of thought into it. I think the primary reason we store those settings in the registry is that's where VS stores all of it's other settings and there's value in consistency. At some point VS may move all of its settings into a config file but now, I suspect for historical reasons, all settings are under the VisualStudio hive in the registry.

re: Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

Jarle Nygård — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:00 GMT

Fair enough, but I don't have to like it... ;)

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michal.Log — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:52:38 GMT

I wanted to do it a long time ago, but time has passed and I was forgetting about it over and over again.

re: Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

Pravin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:34:12 GMT

Does the same rule apply to SourceControl\AddOptions\ExcludeMasks?

Cheers,

re: Configuring the new TreeDiff Power Toy

PermanentTan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:14:21 GMT

Yes but the ExcludeMasks filter only apply for files and there is no AddOptions filter for folders. Also, the bug that Brian mentioned is only in TreeDiff and not in Add Files to Source Control.

The new Folder Difference in VS2008 has a completely new file/folder filtering and does not use these filter masks. There are 4 blog postings about this feature starting with http://blogs.msdn.com/permanenttan/archive/2007/03/29/visual-studio-orcas-march-2007-ctp-folder-difference.aspx.

-Tan

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