Here’s an interesting enhancement for StarTeam and Araxis Merge:
This utility solves the problem that StarTeam doesn’t surface any information (filename, path, revision number) about the files being compared to custom diff viewers. By replacing StarTeam’s internal visdiff.exe with a custom application of the same name, we are able to get to the same information as StarTeam’s visdiff.exe.
This tool was written by Anders Melander.
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I don’t know about you guys but there are too issues with this version of visdiff.exe. First, the files should be switched so that the local version is on the lefthand side (at least that’s how my brain works). Second, the first parameter to FileComparison.Compare should be Title2 so that you’re actually modifying the file that appears in the title. Otherwise you end up modifying some temp file and even when you select File | Save in Araxis and it says your saving back to your real local file it’s wrong.
Anyway, I’ve found that the above changes are what most people were on the Delphi dev team want.
If you can think of reasons not to make these changes I’d sure like to know.
-Steve
I forgot to mention, huge thanks to Anders for putting this together as no one here has had the time to research it and fix this ridiculous way that ST works.
-Steve
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