Using VB.NET - Nightmare with Diff Tools

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  • Phillip Taylor

    #1

    Using VB.NET - Nightmare with Diff Tools


    I'm having an absolute nightmare with regular diff tools which is
    making it really hard to manage changes etc in CVS. Tools such as
    WinMerge and ViewCVS really have really poor matching results which is
    making it difficult to rollback, compare changes and don't even get me
    starting on merging branches. The last one went so badly I basically
    reapplied every bug fix manually to the development branch and it took
    hours.

    Does anyone know any diff tools (perhaps specific to VB.NET) that will
    give me better results?

    This is typical problem I'm getting:

    ORIGINAL NEW VERSION
    ----------------------------------------------------------

    -------------------------------- 'private sub button1_click()
    -------------------------------- ' 'dosome stuff
    -------- DELETED ----------- ' end sub
    --------------------------------


    private sub button1_click() private sub button2_click()
    'do some stuff 'do some other stuff

    end sub
    ---------------------------------

    private sub button2_click() ----------------------------------
    'do some other stuff
    -----------------------------------

    end sub end sub

    I'm sure you already get the idea. (please let this format correctly!)

    Any feedback / similar stories & solutions would be helpful.

    Thank you

    Phill

  • Egghead

    #2
    Re: Using VB.NET - Nightmare with Diff Tools

    Do you try the DiffMerge from source gear?
    It is free, and it just compare two text files. It will not mass up your
    code.


    --
    cheers,
    RL

    P.S. I do not work at source gear.

    "Phillip Taylor" <Phillip.Ross.T aylor@gmail.com wrote in message
    news:1183040139 .271525.317840@ u2g2000hsc.goog legroups.com...
    >
    I'm having an absolute nightmare with regular diff tools which is
    making it really hard to manage changes etc in CVS. Tools such as
    WinMerge and ViewCVS really have really poor matching results which is
    making it difficult to rollback, compare changes and don't even get me
    starting on merging branches. The last one went so badly I basically
    reapplied every bug fix manually to the development branch and it took
    hours.
    >
    Does anyone know any diff tools (perhaps specific to VB.NET) that will
    give me better results?
    >
    This is typical problem I'm getting:
    >
    ORIGINAL NEW VERSION
    ----------------------------------------------------------
    >
    -------------------------------- 'private sub button1_click()
    -------------------------------- ' 'dosome stuff
    -------- DELETED ----------- ' end sub
    --------------------------------
    >
    >
    private sub button1_click() private sub button2_click()
    'do some stuff 'do some other stuff
    >
    end sub
    ---------------------------------
    >
    private sub button2_click() ----------------------------------
    'do some other stuff
    -----------------------------------
    >
    end sub end sub
    >
    I'm sure you already get the idea. (please let this format correctly!)
    >
    Any feedback / similar stories & solutions would be helpful.
    >
    Thank you
    >
    Phill
    >

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    • Spam Catcher

      #3
      Re: Using VB.NET - Nightmare with Diff Tools

      "Egghead" <robertlo@NO_SH AW.CAwrote in news:u12PAHZuHH A.3544
      @TK2MSFTNGP03.p hx.gbl:
      Do you try the DiffMerge from source gear?
      It is free, and it just compare two text files. It will not mass up your
      code.

      I would going to suggest that one too - we use the built in version in
      SourceGear's Vault client. Seems to be accurate :-)

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