Bug 7419 - Compare with external directory
Summary: Compare with external directory
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 21817
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Compare (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Andre Weinand CLA
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Reported: 2002-01-10 05:40 EST by Andre Weinand CLA
Modified: 2003-02-10 11:54 EST (History)
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Description Andre Weinand CLA 2002-01-10 05:40:19 EST 
From eclipse.tools:

I would find it very useful to be able to do a visual diff between source in
an Eclipse project and source in another external directory, and merge
differences into the project.

This is because when I take code home to work on, merging back into the
stream when I return to work involves using an external diff tool to 
compare my changes with 'Head'. It seems silly to have to do this when 
Eclipse already has a nice visual diff.
Comment 1 Andre Weinand CLA 2002-03-07 11:09:35 EST 
Eclipse does not support external resources in general.
Since it is always possible to import external resources into
a workspace a workaraound exists for 2.0.
Will reconsider after 2.0.
Comment 2 Channing Walton CLA 2002-03-07 11:13:14 EST 
would importing the external source into a project X allow me to compare it 
with source in project Y?
Comment 3 Andre Weinand CLA 2002-03-07 11:47:14 EST 
Yes.
And if project Y already exists you can just "Refresh from local" instead
of going through a full import.
Comment 4 Channing Walton CLA 2002-03-08 03:54:34 EST 
Excellent! I never saw this feature, very impressive.
Comment 5 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-02-10 11:53:50 EST 
reopened to mark as duplicate
Comment 6 Andre Weinand CLA 2003-02-10 11:54:12 EST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21817 ***