Comparing Projects¶

You can compare the currently open project with another project – a reference project. The differences in contents, properties, or access rights are detected and shown in a comparison view.

Clicking Project ‣ Compare opens the Project Compare dialog for you to configure and run the comparison. Then the result is shown in the comparison view Project Compare - Differences where the objects are aligned in a tree structure. Objects that indicate differences from the respective reference object are identified by colors and symbols. This is how you detect whether or not the contents, properties, or access rights are different.

For differences in the contents, you can also open the detailed compare view Project Compare - <object name> Differences in order to zoom into the object. In the detailed compare view, the contents of the object and reference object are displayed or their source code aligned. The detected differences are marked. Previously opened views are not closed. In this way, you can have any number of comparison views open and read them, in addition to the project compare view.

You can accept the detected differences from the reference project into the current project. This is possible only from the reference project into the open project. To do this, you activate differences (for example in the code) that should be accepted in the current project with the commands , , or in the active comparison view for accepting. These positions are highlighted in yellow. Make sure that any other open compare views are inactive (write-protected, read-only). therefore, you can activate differences to be accepted in exactly one comparison view only. When exiting the active compare view, if you confirm that the differences that are activated for acceptance are actually accepted into the current project, then the current project is modified.

In order to exit the project comparison completely, close the project compare view.