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  1. 12 votes

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  2. Code compare should remember when I e.g. use JavaScript syntax highlighting for Typescript files, or Java for Groovy files. So the problem that not all languages are supported isn't too bad.

    3 votes

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  3. Enable support for comparing files provided the path is URI.

    If I want to compare files on web, at first I had to download them manually and then compare them.
    The same applies for FTP or other protocols.
    If the file is located on local disk, then it would be fine to use "file" scheme.

    Suppose I want to compare file on web and file on local disk:
    - http://www.example.com/bower.json
    - file:///C:/temp/bower.json

    1 vote

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  4. In other tools there is an option to create backups when saving files you have manually merged during file comparison.

    The settings allow specifying:
    - the directory to save the backup files (global directory, original file directory, etc.)
    - the file extension used (.bak, ...)
    - append timestamp

    i find this helpful when doing standalone file comparisons that are not controlled by source control.

    1 vote

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  5. This is the main feature that I miss compared to Visual Studio's comparison tool. Having these "virtual" line breaks allows to maintain both files aligned and makes it much easier to keep track of differences.

    The outlining boxes in Code Compare are nice, but definitely not as efficient.

    This is currently what's holding me off on using Code Compare.

    5 votes

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  6. Implement "Undo Unchanged Files" feature for any folder in pending changes.
    For TFS this will be brilliant feature because there is no good tool/extension to do so.
    Especially it is useful when baseless merge is performed.
    Thanks in advance.

    31 votes

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  7. Every now and then i want to compare 2 methods, 2 blocks of text, or basically any 2 parts of the same or different files.

    I would appreciate a function which lets me right-click a method/class or a selected block of text, and choose "Select left" and "Select right" just as i can compare 2 arbitrary files in the Windows Explorer.

    CodeCompare would only compare the selected class/method/block of text; not the entire files.

    1 vote

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  8. Often I have to re-do a comparision between two files, for instance because one of them had been changed in the meantime. It would be great if Code Compare would remember the previous n comparisiona (n being something like 10 or so).

    5 votes

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  9. I am customizing a large open source project and mark all my updates
    with a special marker (like "Added by me").

    When a new version of the project is released, I need to merge all my
    changes from the previous version to the new. If I compare all files, I
    see all changes made by the project (which are a lot). I only want to
    see changes to files where I have made modifications and added my "Added by me" marker.

    1 vote

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  10. Add a Taskbar/Application Icon for ccsa.exe (CodeCompare GUI). Currently a default application icon is shown which makes it hard to distinguish between other tools without custom icons.

    1 vote

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  11. support for Haxe and AS3 languages

    2 votes

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  12. It's be a good thing if we can select block of text and CTRL+Right copy it to another comparing document.

    2 votes

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  13. Should allow current user install without requiring Administrator rights.

    Why is XCOPY deployment not supported?

    3 votes

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  14. Allow the ability to take a file or folder comparison and drag them of CC or via shell context open in a new instance of CC.

    I run multiple monitor setups so been able to have to code compares running in each monitor will increase my work flow up to 40%

    6 votes

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  15. It would be great to add file type filter option for Explorer context menu.
    Why would I want to compare some random files??? I consider that a bug.

    1 vote

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  16. While in Visual Studio, it's hard to see which change the cursor is on.
    Could you change the line color of the box around the currently selected
    change making it easier to spot?

    1 vote

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  17. Main text compare window stays in light theme. Should completely be in dark theme.

    19 votes

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  18. I am one of those 50% of developers who does not like how VS 2013 looks. There should be an option in CodeCompare v4 to go back to v3 style, including the toolbar icons. Please add the old icon set when switching back to "Classic" theme.

    2 votes

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  19. SCMs e.g. Git, Mercurial, svn etc. support annotate/blame. Add annotate comparison (whom and what) over lines/blocks of code.

    2 votes

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  20. for delphi source code comparsion when comparing with ignoring white chars, here are bug in comparing compiler directives

    e.g.

    {$DEFINE XYZ} - this is compiler directive

    is not same as

    { $DEFINE XYZ} - this is comment

    ===================

    Comments are ignored by the compiler, except when they function as separators (delimiting adjacent tokens) or compiler directives.
    There are several ways to construct comments:

    { Text between a left brace and a right brace constitutes a comment. }
    (* Text between a left-parenthesis-plus-asterisk and an

    asterisk-plus-right-parenthesis also constitutes a comment. *)

    // Any text between a double-slash and the end of…

    1 vote

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