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Bug 89022

Summary: [Repo View] Compare with filesystem (file or directory) or another project (root or subdir thereof)
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Christopher G. Stach II <cstach-eclipse>
Component: CVSAssignee: platform-cvs-inbox <platform-cvs-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: 3.0.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Christopher G. Stach II CLA 2005-03-24 13:54:33 EST 
I have projects that are not in the same CVS module, but I still need to 
compare them.  Right now I have to manually diff.  Compare with would be even 
more useful if it could do these rather necessary things.
Comment 1 Andre Weinand CLA 2005-05-06 06:14:12 EDT 
This sounds like CVS
Comment 2 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-05-06 10:21:46 EDT 
The problem is that comparing two different modules in the repo view requires 
them both to be checked out (i.e. there is no cvs command to do it). We can't 
do it into the workspace so we would need to fake it. This is technicaly 
possible but not a high priority.

The workaround is to check out both of the modules you want to compare and 
them use the Compare with>Each Other command in the Resource Navigator
Comment 3 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-09-04 02:37:56 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and remove the stalebug whiteboard tag. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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