5.2.1  Differences Buttons

These buttons are located at the top and bottom of the Differences window. They do the following:

Button

Description

Jump to file

Allows one to navigate around the comparison results by jumping from one file to another. The special entry Summary will take you to the top of the results where a summary of the differences found is displayed.

Performs a comparison of the file selected in the Jump to file combobox using the external helper application specified in the Preferences dialog window (see Section 7.1).

Displays a standard Save As dialog window, allowing one to save the entire comparison results in its original “unified diff” patch(1) format to disk.

Stops the currently running comparison. This is very useful when you accidentally start a comparison that generates a much larger result than expected.

Revision Change Log

These buttons display Change Log windows for the two revisions on which the comparison was based. The red button displays the change log for the older revision that contains the text highlighted in red. Likewise the green button displays the change log for the newer revision that contains the text highlighted in green.