From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,XPRIO autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b2011d0de07e01d2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Terry Westley" Subject: wanted: Ada diff tool Date: 2000/05/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 618336252 X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: news-admin@qwestip.net X-Trace: wdc-read-01.qwest.net 957287467 137.100.53.39 (Tue, 02 May 2000 11:11:07 MDT) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 11:11:07 MDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Does anyone know of a difference tool which understands the syntax of Ada? Here's the context: We use Clearcase for configuration management. Clearcase provides a useful merge facility for reconciling changes to one source file made by multiple people. Unfortunately, it's based on a pretty simple diff tool. Most of the time it's OK, but sometimes I'd really like to know if the only changes to a file are reformatting or comment changes. Then I can better make decisions about what needs to be tested or whether I even want to accept a specific change in certain releases. Any suggestions? I've thought of pretty-printing both files, them comparing the results, but then it would be difficult to trace back to the changes in the original file. So far, I haven't found anything at the code repositories I frequent. -- Terry J. Westley, Software Systems Engineering Supervisor Veridian Engineering, Calspan Operations twestley@buffalo.veridian.com http://www.veridian.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- Author of TASH, an Ada binding to Tcl/Tk. Visit the TASH web site at http://www.adatcl.com. -------------------------------------------------------