LOC counts for new files

[Guest]

I use Beyond Compare for, among other things, measuring lines of code in source code files. To do this I use the Statistics layout of the File Differences Report. I can easily measure the new and changed LOC between two files or two directory trees, which is great. However, if I simply want to measure the LOC for new files, the method I use is a kludge. I create a new, empty file or directory and then compare the code I want to measure with it.

This works, but I am now developing instructions for other developers to do this, and I wish there were a more straightforward/elegant way. Do any of you have any suggestions?

Regards,
Matthew

[Chris]

Re: LOC counts for new files

For a baseline SLOC, it should work to only load a folder on the left side of the Folder Viewer, then use the File Differences Report command to generate statistics.

[Guest]

Re: LOC counts for new files

Thank you, that works very well. I prefer to load the file or folder just on the right side instead, so that the report shows the lines as added rather than deleted:

Added file "<filename>"
Important Lines Unimportant Lines
0 original line(s) 0 original line(s)
1640 line(s) added 913 line(s) added
0 line(s) deleted 0 line(s) deleted
0 line(s) modified 0 line(s) modified

This solves my problem and I appreciate the quick response.

Regards,
Matthew