[MC] Diffing arbitrary versions?

Avi Bryant avi.bryant at gmail.com
Fri Mar 17 05:08:02 UTC 2006


On Mar 16, 2006, at 9:03 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Ah, great! I had no idea. BTW, can you explain what the "diff"  
> button actually does? It claims to "create an equivalent version  
> based on an earlier release" but what exactly does that mean? (I  
> kinda expected this button to offer me a history where I could  
> choose a version from for creating a diff ;-)

It should let you choose a previous version - it then creates a new  
Version object that only stores the diff between that previous  
version and the later one (which gets saved as a .mcd file,  
not .mcz).  To do anything with the .mcd later you need to have  
access to the previous version the diff is based on.

Avi



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