On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:48:50 +0100, Frank Lanitz frank@frank.uvena.de wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:16:37 -0700 Ben West mrgenixus@gmail.com wrote:
technically, if vcdiff is already installed, couldn't it be leveraged to manage any changes made since the file in the filesystem changed? just a thought.
I'm afraid I hardly dislike this idea. VCdiff was indented to work together with VC-systems like subversion or git. Implementing a feature like supporting a diff between the loaded version of a file and the version remote (either on 127.0.0.1 or wherever) will need a big bunch
Uhh, I didn't even think of this way. I assumed Ben suggested this for files which are already under any version control system. Anyway, the requested feature would then more or less hard depend on the vcdiff/geanyvc plugin which is not an option.
of changes done (including a own folk of a generic diff tool) on this
The 'diff' command could be used, but stil...
Regards, Enrico