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vjs8in - 28 Mar 2006 17:06 GMT

Hi,
Is there any kind of documentation for the reports i can get from diff
( project) on the command line.

VSS help says

-B Create a brief difference report.

currently i run diff with the -o option and can see the results in a
txt file. however it is not in a very friendly format.

any help on how to use the - B option?

Also is it possible to set the 'Force_dir' variable from the command
line during script run time?
not setting this option makes diff to compare project against the
install folder.

to set a work fold for the diff to compare against using the work fold
command. i need to have the setting Force_ dir='yes', i can set this in
the SS.INI file, but i would like to make sure it is turned on by
setting it from command line so that my diff compares against the right
folder is it possible to do it?

Thanks

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Alin Constantin [MSFT] - 29 Mar 2006 02:52 GMT

In project mode diff, -B option will not try to compare the files content.
Only file that exist locally and don't exist in database and files that
exist in the database but don't exist locally will be displayed. If a file
exist both in local folder and in VSS project and has different content,
specifying -B flag to ss diff will not list that file.
If you don't specify the -B flag, VSS will diff the file content, and will
list the file in a section "SourceSafe files different from local files:"

Unfortunately the -GF is not a switch supported by "ss diff" command, so I
think you'll have to set manually Force_Dir in ss.ini or srcsafe.ini files.

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> Hi,
> Is there any kind of documentation for the reports i can get from diff
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> Thanks

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