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Bug 344063

Summary:	Compare Viewer should be configurable to show older file on left, newer file on right like it used to
Product:	[Tools] CDT	Reporter:	Matt Hargett <matt>
Component:	cdt-core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <cdt-core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ruud.goossens, yevshif, zeratul976
Version:	8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Matt Hargett

2011-04-27 20:04:42 EDT

Build Identifier: 201104150807

In previous versions of CDT, comparing two revisions gave a UI where the older file was on the left and the newer file is one the right. If this is intentional, please add a configuration option that allows users to choose between the old and new behaviour.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in a file with source control integration enabled, right-click on a file and select revision history
2. in the revision history tab, select two revisions
3. evoke the context menu on the two selected revisions and select 'diff two revisions'

result: older file is on the right and newer file is on the left, which is the opposite of most visual diff tools and previous Eclipse CDT versions

Comment 1 Ruud Goossens

2014-12-09 05:28:17 EST

duplicate of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=213780 ?

Comment 2 Nathan Ridge

2017-02-07 01:28:10 EST

(In reply to Ruud Goossens from comment #1)
> duplicate of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=213780 ?

Indeed, and that was recently fixed (in Neon.2 and later).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 213780 ***