You can also view the differences between any two documents in history with the CVS->History command from the right click menu.įilter out comment lines and other noise from right within the side by side differences view in CVS Suite.

Right ClickĬhecking the changes you have made to a document is as quick as a right click away. CVS Suite side by side Differences viewer allows you to see all your chages at a glance. Document properties and macros are also shown in the side by side view - so you can be sure you are comparing all the changes. The text portion of any Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Powerpoint document can be compared side by side with the latest version. With CVS Suite tracking changes in Microsoft Office documents is easy. With the included side by side Diff and Merge utility you can compare the changes between any two historical version os file, or the current copy on disk with a repository version. Get a list of the current ignores and pipe it into a text file: svn propget svn:ignore.When updating the property, I use the -F argument to specify a file instead of supplying the value in the command line. I really wish the TortiseSVN guys would release their merge tool as a separate download, if you know a good diff tool, let me know.)īecause the svn:ignore property is stored as a new line delimited list, you need to pipe the results into a text file and edit them in the tool of your choice. (Over the last few years, I've grown a well established distrust for TortiseSVN, as they shell-overlays can cripple even the fastest machines.

However, if you're using the command prompt, it requires a bit more effort. If you're using TortoiseSVN, you can hide theses folder from source control simply by pulling up the context-menu for the un-versioned folder, select TortoiseSVN and 'Add to ignore list'. Folders like 'bin' and 'obj' and user-preference files have no place in source control - they just seem to get in the way. I use Subversion at work and when I'm managing files from the command prompt, I generally don't enjoy having to sift through a long list of file names with question marks next to them, wondering whether these files should be checked into source control.

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