I faced lot of trouble when i do difference between two versions in VSS, it is not specifying what exactly the change is. So i thought of exploring how to use one of the best open source diff tool to make this.
In this post i am going to explain how can we integrate WinMerge’s diff tool with VSS 5.0.
Pre-Requisites:
1. VSS 5.0 installed
2. Winmerge 2.12.4 installed.
Steps:
1. Open VSS by entering valid User name, password and connect to a Visual Source Safe database.
2. Go to Tools>Options.
3. In options dialog go to the “Custom Editors” tab by clicking on the spin button (< >)
4. Click on the Operations combo box.
5. Select “File Difference”
6. In File Extension edit box: enter file extension to use (Ex: .*) for all file types.
7. In Command Line edit box: enter the installation location of the WinMergeU.exe. on My machine.
Example:
C:\Program Files\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe /e /x /wl /wr %1 %2
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