beyond compare ignore whitespace differences

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To send a chunk of changes to a code pasting service, select Send Chunk to CodePaster in the context menu.

If the files change outside Qt Creator, select ( Reload Editor) to compare them again and to show the results. To use them independently of each other, select the ( Synchronize Horizontal Scroll Bars) button. To expand the context for the changes, set the number of unchanged lines to show in Context lines.īy default, the horizontal scroll bars in the left and right pane are synchronized. To only show text changes, select Ignore Whitespace. To switch back to the side-by-side view, select ( Switch to Side by Side Diff Editor). To view the differences in a unified view where changed rows are placed below each other, select ( Switch to Unified Diff Editor). To apply the changes, select removed text and then select Apply Chunk. To revert the changes, right-click added text and then select Revert Chunk in the context menu.

By default, red indicates lines that contain removed text (painted another shade of red) in the left pane and green indicates lines that contain added text (painted another shade of green) in the right pane. Color coding is used to mark changed lines. The changes are displayed in the Edit mode. If Qt Creator cannot detect the encoding of the files to compare, an info bar appears that displays the option to reload the document using some other encoding.

Right click on the second file in the Projects or File System view and select Diff Against Current File.

To compare the currently opened file against another file in a project or the filesystem:

Select Tools > Diff > Diff External Files.

To view unsaved changes in all open files, select Tools > Diff > Diff Open Files. To view unsaved changes in the current file, select Tools > Diff > Diff Current File. You need a text diff for that sort of thing.īut I still always reach for Araxis first.You can use a diff editor to display unsaved changes in the current file or all open files or to compare any two text files that can be either versions of the same file or arbitrary files. It would be hyperbole to state that there's nothing worse than telling Araxis Merge to do a folder compare and find out that 1,000+ files have had 1 line changed in them - but it is rather annoying, and very time-consuming to investigate thoroughly. On the other hand, if you're making small changes to a lot of files, a text diff is just the thing. git gui and SourceTree try their best to help, but ultimately they're just displaying a prettified version of the same sometimes-unhelpful view of things. Column-oriented changes in particular are very difficult to figure out, and even for more readable sets of changes I always found it a bit hard to get a rough idea of how spread out or clustered together the changes are. I didn't realise how spoiled I was until I started using git, and found the hard way how limiting the text diff format can be. I've long been a user of Araxis Merge, which is not only visual, but also lets you edit the diffs as you go, which comes in super handy for all the reasons that you state. Well I don't disagree, even if everybody else does. Ignoring whitespace changes in languages which aren't whitespace sensitive can also help: I personally find the two highlighted lines of an if statement and it's end more informative than the seven highlighted lines which include it's functionally unchanged body that's merely changed scope. Other tools include highlighting difference within a line instead of merely at a per-line level. Neither is keeping commits as small as possible: simple renames can easily touch 30 files at a time, to say nothing of adding parameters or more complicated refactorings which must be committed together or leaves the codebase in a broken state.

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Splitting the diff in 'twain can help, but it's not a full answer. Increasing the readability of a diff is a noble goal.

The build not failing the first commit reflects poorly on the unit tests. For whitespace fixes (making a mix of tabs vs spaces consistent), I agree with you.įor 'I wrapped these 5 lines in a conditional and adjusted the indentation per code standard' in a language like C# I disagree with you, the first commit is ugly and leaves the codebase (temporarily) out of sync with codebase style, which may fail the build or fail to submit in the first place if you enforce such things via precommit hook or build process.įor the same operation in python, where semantics changes are attached to indentation level changes, the first commit is BROKEN, WRONG, AND BAD.

Beyond compare ignore whitespace differences