Save diff of two folders

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d00ape
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Save diff of two folders

Post by d00ape » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:17 am

I want to save the files that has a diff or is new when I have made a Folder-diff. Is that possible?

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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by Beth » Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:21 am

That's not currently available, but I have a feature request on it. I'll add your "vote."
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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by jeffhostetler » Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:26 am

If I understand what you're asking -- a way of saving the contents of a Folder-Diff Window
that is showing a list of what has changed or been added/deleted -- then, sorry, but no.
I have a feature request logged that would address this and allow the list to be saved and/or
copied to the clipboard.

You can, however, print (either to paper or to a file) the contents of Folder-Diff Window.
That's probably not as useful, but it may be helpful.

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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by d00ape » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:17 pm

ok, do you know any other tool that can do that.
By the way is DiffMerge open source? then I gladly help adding that feature!

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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by jeffhostetler » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:12 pm

thanks for the offer, but we haven't released the source.

If you're on Linux or Mac (or have cygwin installed on Windows), you can use
gnu diff to compare 2 directories:
diff -r -q dir1 dir2

as for other GUI tools, there are several. a quick google search on "folder diff tool"
found most of the ones i've heard of. but it's been a while since i looked at any of
them and i don't remember if they have a folder window that can be saved or copied.
but you might start there.

hope this helps,
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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by d00ape » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:49 pm

ok, I've googled and installed about 5 tools but none of them can do the last step to accomplish my mission :(
I'll google on...

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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by Beth » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:34 pm

Thanks for the update.
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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by jeffhostetler » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:53 am

SourceGear DiffMerge 3.3.0 is now available and fixes this problem.

We can now save the contents of a folder window to a CSV. (I'm open to
suggestion for other formats to support.) The output respects the various
show/hide toolbar buttons.

Full details can be found at http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/index.html.

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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by cybertugh » Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:59 am

Is it already possible to save the folder diff to csv from the commandline?

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Re: Save diff of two folders

Post by jeffhostetler » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:58 am

sorry, but no.

the command line diff option only handles a pair of files.

jeff

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