Re: Re: 'Compare' context menu entry

> Can this feature be extended by choosing two files wherever they
> are in the filesystem?
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> For example , i have a local backup copy not ever checked-in and
> i want to compare it with the cvs version, or even compare
> two local copies that are not in cvs.
>
> --- In smartcvs@..., Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@...> wrote:
> >
> > 2009/1/21 syntevo Support <smartcvs@...>:
> > > We can't offer all good things in the free Foundation version. We need to
> > > earn some money by selling Professional licenses. ;)
> >
> > Totally understand. Obviously for me this fits into convenience not
> > deal-making stuff, as I can use an external compare tool. But
> > convenience could be a killer feature for some. 8-)
> >
> > One thing which actually bit me yesterday and might be a real
> > justification to management for the professional version: protection
> > against checking in/out files which differ in name only by case on a
> > non-case-sensitive or only case-preserving filesystem.
> >
> > SmartCVS behaved as if the client OS (WinXP/NTFS) was case-sensitive
> > (our server is on Linux), but didn't notice/warn that a developer
> > checked in a file where the name differed only by case to one already
> > in the repository, and on checkout, didn't warn that one file was
> > overwriting the other...
> >
> > To be honest, for me the best announcement from you would be that you
> > were working on a SmartGIT client using the jgit package. 8-)
> >
> > Cheers, Mike
> >
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