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1. DIFFMERGE IGNORE WHITESPACE INSTALL
2. DIFFMERGE IGNORE WHITESPACE CODE
3. DIFFMERGE IGNORE WHITESPACE WINDOWS

Sorry, I doubt that diffmerge.exe will add this feature. So is this something that is going to get fixed in diffmerge What if you really DO want to ignore whitespace but not within literal strings When in reality the developer was preventing the checkin because diffmerge was not detecting the whitespace he/she had added to the literal string. I misunderstood our developer and thought that it was preventing the checkin because it didn't detect a difference. This option will mark changes in whitespace as Important/Unimportant. Can you verify that the files are actually different using a binary-mode comparison can refine the context further to make commonly ignored things unimportant. It's very unlikely two files would have the same hash even if the only difference is whitespace. Team Foundation does not use the diff/merge engine when determining if the file has changed. Thanks for the pointer, but isn't it a bug if it is discarding or ignoring whitespace between quotatioins or within literal strings You can remove that param by configuring your diff tool. How do we work around it Do all of our developers need to change their individual setupsĭiffmerge tool has /ignorespace parameter. Are you aware of this problem Is there a fix on the way Posted: Team Foundation Server - Version Control, diffmerge and whitespaceĭiffmerge is incorrectly ignoring whitespace in literal strings causing the checkin of these changes to abort because it detects no change.

DIFFMERGE IGNORE WHITESPACE CODE

Also, clicking on the left/right arrows to copy the changes is a feature that I really like.īelow VS image is from Devart website, but in my case I setup Code Compare to open it outside VS instead of embedded, I think it behaves better.Index ‹ Visual Studio Team System ‹ Team Foundation Server - Version Control

It has also Merge to solve conflicts and Folder diff, which is really useful when SVN does not merge for some reason.

DIFFMERGE IGNORE WHITESPACE WINDOWS

and Windows Explorer, so no more nightmares/confusion between different comparisons tools.

DIFFMERGE IGNORE WHITESPACE INSTALL

Update 2020: we struggled a lot solving conflicts with VS comparison tool and the Tortoise SVN one, so after a research we decided to install Devart Code Compare (free version) which has integration with VS2015/2017/2019, SVN (Tortoise and Ankh), TFS, Mercurial, GIT, etc. In the toolbar click on "Ignore trim whitespace". In VS2015 it's possible to "ignore white space" when comparing clicking a little icon with the = symbol. For example, in the VS2015 it will be: %1 %2 /ignorespace In the argument option leave it with the same number of arguments as the VS suggests and just add /ignorespace in the end. VS2017: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\vsDiffMerge.exe diff has some options that can be useful to you: -E, -ignore-tab-expansion ignore changes due to tab expansion -Z, -ignore-trailing-space ignore white space at line end -b, -ignore-space-change ignore changes in the amount of white space -w, -ignore-all-space ignore all white space -B, -ignore-blank-lines ignore changes whose lines are all blank. VS2015: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\vsDiffMerge.exe VS2013: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\vsDiffMerge.exe VS2012: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\diffmerge.exe VS2010: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\diffmerge.exe