Talk:VCS integration

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VSS 6 has an option to set an exernal editor

Tools/Options/General/Editor for viewing files

but that doesn't override the builtin comparison viewer.

I don't know that you can get it to call WinMerge?

[edit] Interesting

I'm new to VSS, just started using it last month, so let me know if I'm wrong on this... VSS tracks version changes using binary patches correct? In which case, VSS can't call a seperate program to diff two versions of the same file, because those files don't ever actually "exist."

This probably doesn't apply if you want to diff the latest revisions of two seperate files, but it would be cumbersome to allow a seperate program to work under those strict conditions.

It would be great if I'm wrong though.

[edit] Integrating WinMerge to VSS 6 is possible

It is possible through registry hack (there was a registry patch for that in WinMerge sources) but as it is somewhat risky thing to do we haven't enabled in WinMerge.