On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:50:26 +0200, Andreas Tscharner andy@vis.ethz.ch wrote:
Hi Andreas,
- Question: Is it possible (it doesn't to be so at the moment, so
maybe planned) to configure an external diff viewer to start instead of the version control diff?
Not really. And probably there is not much need to, see below.
- Problem: If I try the VC Diff plugin in Windows, I get a message
that it cannot read the diff output (Kann die Ausgabe von "diff" nicht einlesen). It is version 0.14 for Windows, under Windows XP; we use CVSNT (http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki) for version controlling (it is more or less compatible to standard CVS. Any tipps to make it working?
I just tried it on Windows 2000 with cvsnt. I checked out a project, modified a file and used the "From current file" menu item. It works fine except when the file's encoding is e.g. UTF-32. But this is IMO more a problem of CVS as it told on the command line that "binary files differ". I.e. the cvs tool treated the changed file as a binary file.
So, maybe your problem is related to the encoding of the files you use? Did you try GeanyVC (http://users.cosmostv.by/yurand/geanyvc/)? It has many more features and maybe it works better/different.
Regards, Enrico