Recently, I installed TCL/TK and grabbed TKDiff, to see if that was an improvement over WinDiff, which is a visually crude but fairly reliable workhorse. To get TortoiseCVS to use it, I set up a batch file as the TortoiseCVS diff app (CVS->Preferences->Main->External diff app). For some reason, you can’t directly specify the .tcl file in TortoiseCVS. The batch file contains this line:
c:TKDiff kdiff %1 %2
I was interested in a smarter diff because of cr-lf problems I recently introduced while sailing back and forth across the windows/linux time-space continuum. Well, TKDiff barfed on all that. Can’t hold it against it, tho…
TKDiff – barfed – totally confused
WinMerge – barfed – totally confused
CSDiff – seemed to do OK, but MAN it’s tough reading one listing
WinDiff – did OK
So I guess I am back where I started for now… I manually patched up the CR-LF problems, and I am back to liking TKDiff the best at this point… what a roller coaster ride, man I got a headache… to be continued…
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