Is there a diff tool for viewing differences in XIB's? It could display what graphical elements are in one xib while missing in other?
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XIB files are regular XML files. You can diff them using your favorite diff tool.
Otavio
2009-10-04 15:47:15
my favorite diff tool shows only textual, but not visual differences. After all - each element has it's own unique ID which means that EVERY element will be different from it's counterpart in other document.
Eimantas
2009-10-04 17:13:18
Yeah, I know, that is a problem. I have never seen a visual tool for diffing XIB files. :-(
Otavio
2009-10-04 18:24:00
There's no way to determine equality or differences between two files with different IDs in them. In the case of three or more windows (for example) between the xibs, how would you know which two windows to compare?
Peter Hosey
2009-10-04 18:34:54
comparison should be done on two windows. and i think it should be more of a hierarchical differences (views -> subviews recursion) thingie.
Eimantas
2009-10-16 07:46:59
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There isn't a tool that will do this visually. Only textual comparison is currently possible (diff, FileMerge, etc.) which is still a big advantage over the older nib format.
Ben Lachman
2009-10-10 03:11:01
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You can filter both through nib2objc (http://github.com/akosma/nib2objc) and then compare the results. It will then show you the differences in code.
Roman
2010-10-05 22:14:41