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Where are VS/TFS 2010 DIFF options at?

Answer 1

+4 A:

Your best choice when using the compare features in VSTS is to plug in your favorite 3rd party compare tool. Like, Beyond Compare, Araxis Merge, whatever. Then these settings are much more natural to you if you are familiar with the product.

Alex 2010-03-26 15:22:17

Interesting... I'll look into this as a work-around. Are there absolutely no settings for the VSTS DIFF tool, though? I cannot find a *single* option for it.

Jaxidian 2010-03-26 15:32:46

I would add 'SourceGear' diffmerge to that list. Unlike those other suggestions you can use DiffMerge for free. (And it doesn't show a unix heritage like most open source diff/merge tools)

Bert Huijben 2010-03-26 15:44:05

We actually are migrating from Fortress to TFS so I'm quite familiar with DiffMerge. I was planning on initially trying it out with that anyways - funny coincidence. :-)

Jaxidian 2010-03-26 15:52:24

@Jax...I was also never able to find them...sorry

Alex 2010-03-26 15:59:03

Answer 2

+1 A:

I have found these two blog posts to be immensely helpful. I have integrated DiffMerge as my Diff tool and it integrates perfectly using the settings from James Manning's blog post.

For DiffMerge, the parameters I used were:

/title1=%6 /title2=%7 %1 %2

Jaxidian 2010-03-26 16:23:11

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