Request: Command Line Option for Ignore Unimportant Diff

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Kfran
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Request: Command Line Option for Ignore Unimportant Diff

Post by Kfran » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:21 pm

If I have 2 files that are set up where certain things are unimportant (spaces, case), in the GUI of DiffMerge I can check the menu option 'Hide Unimportant Differences' and the differences are no longer highlighted.

If I use the command line options to tell the differences of the same two files and tell it to create a 3rd file of any differences, then ALL differences go to that 3rd file. I would like for that to not happen. If the differences are unimportant, then do not write.

Or...Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!

lbauer
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Re: Request: Command Line Option for Ignore Unimportant Diff

Post by lbauer » Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:49 am

Thanks for your feedback. I'll log a feature request for this functionality.
Linda Bauer
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nunobo
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Re: Request: Command Line Option for Ignore Unimportant Diff

Post by nunobo » Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:33 am

Is this implemented in 4.2.0 !
I cant get it to work :oops: , can you send me an example.

http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/web ... 4_2_0.html
" Added "-ignore_unimportant" option to the command line interface."

nunobo
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Re: Request: Command Line Option for Ignore Unimportant Diff

Post by nunobo » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:43 am

Was this implemented in 4.2.0 ?

The result of comparison in the command line (True\False) attends to the /i switch ?

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Re: Request: Command Line Option for Ignore Unimportant Diff

Post by Beth » Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:38 am

On the first question, the -ignore_unimportant was implemented and I can see it working fine in my tests. Here is my example that I ran:

sgdm -caption=mydiff -shex -t1=file1 -t2=file2 -ignore_unimportant "C:\Mypath\CheckedOutItemsReport.aspx" "I:\Mypath\BETH_CheckedOutItemsReport.txt"

The result of comparison in the command line (True\False) attends to the /i switch ?
Yes. Here are two more examples:

sgdm -caption=mydiff -shex -t1=file1 -t2=file2 -i "C:\Mypath\CheckedOutItemsReport.aspx" "I:\Mypath\BETH_CheckedOutItemsReport.txt"

sgdm /caption=mydiff /shex /t1=file1 /t2=file2 /i "C:\Mypath\CheckedOutItemsReport.aspx" "I:\Mypath\BETH_CheckedOutItemsReport.txt"
Beth Kieler
SourceGear Technical Support

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