Changing Merge/Compare Tools in TFS

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:56:00 +0000

Moving from SVN to TFS has been an interesting experience. The integration of source control directly into Visual Studio seems like a good thing, but even on a well set up network it can occasionally bring Visual Studio to its knees. And I still don't trust its automerge.

Anyway, if you find that the TFS diff and merge tools are just too ugly and odd to work with, there's a great page on the MSDN blogs that describes how to set Visual Studio to use your preferred tool:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmanning/archive/2006/02/20/diff-merge-configuration-in-team-foundation-common-command-and-argument-values.aspx

Welcome back TortoiseMerge, I've missed you.

Getting Source Code Metrics from SVN

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:55:00 +0000

Lets say that we need to find out how many lines of code exist in a branch, or how many lines are checked in by a specific user. Let's ignore the usefulness of these metrics, just assume that they're needed (realistically, lines of code isn't a very useful metric, but perhaps you want to have a quick idea of how much has gone into a release). How do we do this?

TortoiseSVN statistics aren't really enough. Here's some alternatives:

SVNPlot
Theoretically should give us graphs. Runs in python. Couldn't get it to work in five minutes so moved on.
http://code.google.com/p/svnplot/
StatSVN
Much more respected than the above, runs through Java. Again, didn't have results in five minutes to moved on.
http://www.statsvn.org/
FishEye
Very powerful but it's not free. Generates a lot of information that you can use to analyse your repositories.
http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/overview?gclid=CN6cw4WptqwCFQRP4QodnCtcGg

I'd recommend taking a look at FishEye if you're going to go to the effort of getting these statistics. Any comments on alternatives would be welcome!

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Changing Merge/Compare Tools in TFS

Getting Source Code Metrics from SVN