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  1. When doing a comparison between two source files, I want to specify text substitutions to ignore as differences.
    I.e. I do some global text replacements in File B but I don't won't those changes shown in the code compare window.

    4 votes

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  2. I have to click the Horizontal Layout toolbar button every time I compare a file within Visual Studio.

    5 votes

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  3. It would be helpful to highlight the current block (the cursor position). If you have many changes in the file and go through the changes the current position is sometimes hard to identify. It would be great to highlight the current block by using another color than gray for the border.

    4 votes

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  4. During folder comparison you're shown a list of all files (which ones are new, missing, different, same). If, from this view, I could see an indication of HOW different they are. I would like to quickly, at a glance, see "this file has been slightly altered" or "this file was completely rewritten." Again, the idea being quickly, without individually comparing each file (for large directories, this is quite time consuming).

    This could be simply "Number of Lines Changed" or "Percentage of Lines Changed" or a little bar graph in between each differing file. Just a quick, way to get a…

    12 votes

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  5. Some files, such as PowerShell scripts, Perl scripts, make files, etc., use '#' as the comment marker. How can I compare these file types ignoring comments?

    2 votes

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  6. For instance, moving a { sign on the next line.

    Sometimes the auto-formatting of the IDE makes sweeping changes across a file and I'd like to be able to only see the non-trivial changes highlighted.

    2 votes

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  7. Here is one obvious use case that's impacting me now. I'm comparing two versions of a software package (the older version has changes I made). But the newer version has an updated license text at the top of each .cs file, so every file is marked as changed, making the folder compare useless in this case.

    23 votes

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  8. There is a feature for comparing files in the context-menu, but not for comparing folders. Navigating manually is frustrating. WinMerge has this feature and works seamless with folders.

    1 vote

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  9. Add another display that shows the currently selected line from each document above each other. It allows one to quickly see differences in the currently selected line that might ordinarily be difficult to see. You also have to do less horizontal scrolling with long lines this way.

    19 votes

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  10. Options to ignore
    - Java annotations
    - final modifier
    - braces on single line commands i.e. "command" will be same as "{ command }" e.g. when using "if then else" and similar constructs

    2 votes

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  11. The possibility of using additional regexp filters to include/exclude part of the data from the comparison.

    19 votes

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  12. I am comparing two branches of code which contain many files. I am interested in comparing code which isn't DEBUG or WIN32 to identify significant changes between the branches. I am currently using coan to preprocess before comparinig but it would be much better to do it all in Code Compare.

    1 vote

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  13. Provide a way to save my set of open code compare tabs. I have a dozen pairs of directories that I often compare, and I want to be able to open all of them, and to save this set for later use.

    4 votes

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  14. Make it possible to use all Other, Local and Base versions of file for merging like it is implemented in kdiff3. It is helps in complex cases when Other version has changed a logic of code.

    17 votes

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  15. More options for these as the default language, or detection of similar structures with indications on the tool bar as to which one was applied. Select these on the fly during an active comparison, or spawn the new results in the restructured format.

    6 votes

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  16. Visual Studio 2017 Support so that I can use Code Compare with Visual Studio 2017

    2 votes

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  17. Replace the Default git Merge and git Diff Tool with Code Compare in TortoiseGit, for Svn this is already done, so it should be relative simple and straight forward

    11 votes

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  18. There is a tool that can merge sln Files, something similar should be possible for code Compare.
    If it code compare supports good xml merge this can be solved there

    http://slntools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=SLNTools%20Merge&referringTitle=Home

    15 votes

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  19. Sometimes even the best automatic diff tool will match against the wrong lines. Some other diff programs offer a way to manually re-align these lines. It would be good if Code Compare introduced this feature too.

    56 votes

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  20. Compare .Net Assemblies By Structure and not by binary Diff. So that changes in Assemblies are easier to track.

    7 votes

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