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Code Compare is a tool to compare and merge differing files and folders. It takes into account the specificity of programming languages and can be used both as a Visual Studio add-in and as a standalone application.
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  1. I have a not super unique situation in which I have multiple copies of the same code base for different clients. They all have some version of a master code base, however they are all different in some manner.

    In addition, it is not possible to simply version the software and roll it out to each client in version increments. Instead, features and bug fixes need to be pushed back and forth in a cherry picked manner.

    I haven't found any tool capable of doing this, so I ended up writing a power shell script to help me manage it.…

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  2. Please make code compare available for ubuntu as an extension in visual studio

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  3. Please add support for .cvsignore like files.

    That's a plain text file where you can add files or folders in the same way we can place exclusion on the Tools/Options/Code Compare/Folder/Filters (wild cards like *.bak should be allowed).

    These exclusion will be only for the current folder or subfolders instead of all comparisons we do when we place it on the Preferences of Code Compare.

    Regards,

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  4. New features of the context menu when comparing folders.
    "Move to Right/Left" would work similarly to "Copy to Right/Left" with deletion of the original file.
    "Replace with Most recent" would copy the most recent file in the other folder compared, regardless of direction, to the left or right.

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  5. Comparison of two Microsoft Office Excel files.

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  6. Dropdown with all changes - When mouse over dropdown you can use the wheel - up/down to navigate next/previous change.

    (Examdiff style)

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. Right now Undo operation is scoped in context of currently focused panel

    That does not work at all with "Copy Left" - "Copy Right" feature, because when I use them - it changes not focused panel content, but another one.
    So it's quite hard to undo "Copy Left/Right" operation

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  10. On one hand DEVART has got a very powerful tool to control DB access. On the other hand, you have got a tool to compare files. Why not to allow the user to fetch ... his text from a DB (different DBs) and to write the merged information back into one, the other or a third DB.

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  11. 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

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  12. 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.

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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.

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  15. 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.

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  16. 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.

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  17. 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?

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  18. 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…

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  20. File copy operations can take a long time. During this process there is no feedback indicating progress or expected wait time for the copy process to complete. For me, a simple progress bar with an indication of how far along the process is would suffice. Currently, clicking anywhere in the application during a long copy process causes Windows to report the application as "not responding", which is not really the case. Please add a progress bar for long running operations.

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