Comments on: Advantages of a 3rd party diff/compare tool

By: friv

friv — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:35:16 +0000

Good stuff here. Thanks for reminding me, I’m overdue for a mis-alignment.

friv

By: y3

y3 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:34:58 +0000

Good way to treat gas when its low he..he.. people really does this stuff really we have to change.

By: Flash Games

Flash Games — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:05:34 +0000

cool article thanks admin

By: Y8

Y8 — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:31:54 +0000

merges? I would be hesitant to replace the merge tool for my own convenience, didi Games if it can materially affect the automatic merge.

By: Vikas

Vikas — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:59:04 +0000

@Max Rubinstein: when you follow the instructions in http://ianfnelson.com/blog/tfs-diff-tools/ to launch custom tools for diff/compare and merge, you can actually specify (look at Extension text box on Configure Tool dialog box) on what extension this custom tool must be triggered.

For Ex – Instead of specifying ‘*’ extension, which means trigger it for any file extension, you can specify ‘.aspx,.asmx’

BTW, you can complete disable default merge tool on a team project collection level (in TFS 2010) or TFS level in TFS 2005 / 2008. However, it is going to affect all the projects just like making the above change.

By: Armel

Armel — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:27:00 +0000

@Dean: TortoiseDiff is not really a reference of the domain however

using a tool such as BC, ECMerge or Araxis offer a real advantage, and by the way even TortoiseSVN can integrate those tools.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:20:14 +0000

Why bother using Team foundation at all. By the time you’ve hunted around looking for a diff tool you might as well install TortoiseSVN and save yourself a lot of money

By: Max Rubinstein

Max Rubinstein — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:17:11 +0000

Is it possible to replace the merge tool only for UI merges, but still use built-in TFS merge process for “automatic” (non-ui) merges? I would be hesitant to replace the merge tool for my own convenience, if it can materially affect the automatic merge.

By: AndrewP

AndrewP — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:32:42 +0000

Using a third party tool totally changed everything! I’ve plugged Beyond Compare into TFS and it’s made merging 100% better. Thanks!

By: Punit

Punit — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:05:10 +0000

thanks for the tip! I am using beyond compare now for both diff and merge.