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using BeyondCompare or other compare tool


Javan Smith (111) | asked Apr 08 '09, 11:20 p.m.
edited Oct 12 '17, 2:38 p.m. by David Lafreniere (4.8k7)

I'm trying out the visual studio version of this product, though an answer that is eclipse specific would still be appreciated, though not quite as useful to my whole team.

I would like to swap out the compare editor with a higher-end compare tool like beyond compare. I haven't been able to find any hooks for swapping it out. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

thanks!

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Michael Valenta (3.7k3) | answered Apr 09 '09, 9:14 a.m.
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edited Oct 12 '17, 2:38 p.m. by David Lafreniere (4.8k7)

Integration with external compare tools such as Beyond Compare was added in RTC 2.0.0.2. This support was added to the RTC Eclipse and Visual Studio clients.

Ex: See:
Integrate with other merge tools (87592)
RTC for Visual Studio needs to support pluggable compare editors (87436)
RTC Integration with Beyond Compare (66751)

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Anthony Kesterton (7.5k7180136) | answered Apr 09 '09, 4:48 a.m.
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I'm trying out the visual studio version of this product, though an answer that is eclipse specific would still be appreciated, though not quite as useful to my whole team.

I would like to swap out the compare editor with a higher-end compare tool like beyond compare. I haven't been able to find any hooks for swapping it out. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

thanks!


For Eclipse, there are hooks for the compare tool that can be overridden if you want to replace the standard Eclipse tool. I suspect you have to check if Visual Studio has similar hooks. RTC in Eclipse just calls whatever is on the end of the hook :-), and I suspect does the same thing for the VS client.

regards

anthony

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