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There does not seem to be the ability to create a textual diff of CVS changes (preferably in the -u format). Please make this possible within NetBeans. Thanks.
Any input on this? Textual diff is very useful for the following usability reason: when I want to review a small change, textual diff has a very short output that can be reviewed very fast. On the other hand, the graphical diff presents me with a UI that contains a very long file (potentially), of which only a small part is relevant for my taks (review the diff). It forces me to look at (and scroll through) a lot of text that is irrelevant at the moment.
Actually, this is an issue across all Diff views : the graphical diff window is extremely nice to compare the contents of two files, but there is no good way to export that diff as a text file. It seems that the graphical diff window already has all necessary information to produce the text diff file; however, there doesn't to be a button in it that allows saving that file to disk.
*** Bug 158909 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Would be nice, but only if the textual diff were created directly from the VCS; the IDE's owns diffs are not trustworthy. For example, if I rename a Hg-controlled file, the IDE correctly records the rename, but the graphical diff viewer just shows a delete and an add. To really review this I need to run 'hg diff' from the command line (my ~/.hgrc specifies '[diff] git=1' so renames are displayed correctly).
> Would be nice, but only if the textual diff were created directly from the VCS covered in #169288
partial fix: http://hg.netbeans.org/cdev/rev/2c31ebb7e200 Export diff action added into the popup on files in the diff view
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201002270200* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/2c31ebb7e200 User: Ondrej Vrabec <ovrabec@netbeans.org> Log: Issue #103664 - Ability to create a textual diff export diff action to diff popup
fix: http://hg.netbeans.org/cdev/rev/9046bc72bad8
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201003081350* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/9046bc72bad8 User: Ondrej Vrabec <ovrabec@netbeans.org> Log: Issue #103664 - Ability to create a textual diff