qosacustomer.blogg.se - Winmerge vs beyond compare

See here for info) OR if you want it to be repo specifict then after starting a project in a Git repository, edit the config file in the.

Edit the global git config file (location is OS specific for windows it's %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%/.gitconfig.

Select Microsoft Git Provider under Plug-In Settings on the right-hand pane.

Select Plug-In Settings under the Source Control branch of the left-side tree control.

The relevant info for setting up Visual Studio with Beyond Compare 4 is:

If not then just set that up (see here for further and likely more up to date help). So if you already have GIT setup to use Beyond Compare or any other third party comparison software it will just pick this up and start using it.

Instead it (rightly in my opinion) uses the GIT config file's setting. If you're using GIT as your source code management system instead of the (fairly dated) TFVC then Visual Studio doesn't have options to configure anything like this. To fix this, you can add the argument /solo to the end of the arguments this ensures each comparison opens in a new window, working around the issue with tabs. If you run Beyond Compare in tabbed mode, it can get confused when you diff or merge more than one set of files at a time from Visual Studio. If using Beyond Compare v3/v4 Standard or Beyond Compare v2 (2-way Merge): If using Beyond Compare Professional (3-way Merge): Command: C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 3\BComp.exe (replace with the proper path for your machine, including version number).In Visual Studio, go to the Tools menu, select Options, expand Source Control, (In a TFS environment, click Visual Studio Team Foundation Server), and click on the Configure User Tools button.Įnter/select the following options for Compare: