dr_barnowl
01-May-2008, 03:03 AM
Use case :
I want to be able to take the output of of VCS status command and produce a session XML that creates a session
Limited to files which have actually changed.
With renamed files aligned
Orphans correctly represented on both sides
With the ability to set exclusion lists, enabled formats, all that jazz
It would seem to me that a good first step here would be the ability for bcompare to consume a session XML from the command line.
My VCS tool tracks file renames. You can force alignment of differently named files in a folder session (although this appears to be limited to files in the same folder, but I would be pleasantly surprised to find otherwise).
Now, because of the renames requirement, it may be that a hierarchical folder representation isn't the best way of doing this. I can see a workaround, in that you could represent the alignment to the renamed file with a shortcut, that was visually different to "normal" files.
Or alternately, a flat, "list of paths" session type might work well. I was thinking that popping an instance of the "Compare Contents" summary window from BC2 might work also, but I can't seem to find that in BC3.
I want to be able to take the output of of VCS status command and produce a session XML that creates a session
Limited to files which have actually changed.
With renamed files aligned
Orphans correctly represented on both sides
With the ability to set exclusion lists, enabled formats, all that jazz
It would seem to me that a good first step here would be the ability for bcompare to consume a session XML from the command line.
My VCS tool tracks file renames. You can force alignment of differently named files in a folder session (although this appears to be limited to files in the same folder, but I would be pleasantly surprised to find otherwise).
Now, because of the renames requirement, it may be that a hierarchical folder representation isn't the best way of doing this. I can see a workaround, in that you could represent the alignment to the renamed file with a shortcut, that was visually different to "normal" files.
Or alternately, a flat, "list of paths" session type might work well. I was thinking that popping an instance of the "Compare Contents" summary window from BC2 might work also, but I can't seem to find that in BC3.