Re: Recommendations on an RPG source compare utility?

On 9 March 2016 at 01:07, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But if the OP was talking about using CMPPFM as his current workflow,
then surely he is already keeping around multiple "explicit" copies to
compare. It might be more trouble to shoehorn Git into that workflow
than a standalone diff tool, especially since there is a fair amount
to learn about Git if you've never used it before; whereas I think
folks who can figure out CMPPFM can figure out a diff tool pretty
quickly, in most cases without even reading any instructions.

I like your explanation but I'm sure I haven't been clear. OP wants a
better diff than CMPPFM. CMPPFM runs over QSYS.LIB, and pretty much
the only QSYS.LIB alternative to CMPPFM is a full blown IBM i CMS.
Which I very much think a good idea.

I made the assumption that OP isn't interested in that, which means
WinMerge, or one of the *nix diffs like kdiff3. None of those run
over QSYS.LIB source members, so I sort of jumped ahead and answered a
different question: 'How do I get my source members to a diffable file
system?' My personal choice is RDi + Git because t's mostly seamless
to my existing workflow.
-buck