Difference Options Tab

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Allows you to specify options for viewing differences between files or projects. These options are used in other VSS dialog boxes such as the Project Difference dialog box and the Visual Merge dialog box.

Dialog Box Options

Reset

Resets all values on this tab to their defaults.

Colors

This area of the tab contains a list of line and text types.  Select each type and you will see the corresponding color used for that line or text type in the Sample area.

Note   The color of a bookmark in the visual viewers is the same as the Selection Text background color.

Foreground

This control is a drop down list box used to select the foreground color.

Background

This control is a drop down list box used to select the background color.

Font

Shows the selected font used in the difference viewer windows.  Click Modify to change the font.

Tabstop width

Shows the equivalent number of spaces each tab stop equals.

Show line numbers

Shows line numbers in the visual difference viewers.

Ignore white space differences when merging file

Check this box to ignore differences in white space (tabs, space characters, etc.) when merging two files.

OK

Confirms your selections.

Cancel

Cancels your selections.