Software configuration management (SCM) systems are being actively used in today’s IT industry, especially among software developers who often need to compare and review different releases and compilations of programs. It is not a secret that comparison of programmer files is quite a daunting task. Besides, it is not very convenient to start file compare software manually every time you need to contrast scm files.
That is why it is important to be able to integrate file compare solutions with SCMs. Free VCS is a popular tool in the Delphi community. It is used for team work in development of software solutions. In this post we will show how Compare Suite can be used with Free VCS as an external diff tool.
First off, run FreeVCS Project Manager. Then open Options menu, choose Properties and Compare Tools. To add a custom diff tool, enter comparesuite.exe which is located in CS installation directory (C:\Program Files\Compare Suite\comparesuite.exe). After that make sure you add parameters of files – %1 %2.
Having gone through this procedure, comparison of Free VCS files will take just a few seconds. There is no need to manually compare files, which saves time and efforts.
