Comparing .aip files

[autoform]

Hi,
Is there any method available to compare .aip files with old and current version?

regards,
Mahua

[FergusMurray]

Our AiP's are in our tortoise subversion system, and i have used its text differencing in the past, although not sure how much use text differencing you will find them, we find that because we are dynamically syncing files from directories, this can lead to different/additional components being created and it can be confusing to try and narrow it down to the actual changes "I" made to the aip file.

http://winmerge.org/ is also a freeware text compare ive used in the past that works pretty well

[Bogdan]

As we discussed by e-mail. For comparing the aip files you can use various diff tools, as they are standard XML files. In what regards editing them outside of Advanced Installer, this is highly unrecommended.

Also, please do not duplicate a post on the forums if an e-mail was sent, or vice-versa, they have the same priority for us and you will get the same answer.

Regards,
Bogdan

[Prasad Subrahmanya]

Hi All,

I have made a small change to my AI project which when compared in WinMerge with old AIP file, gives this difference: <ROW Path="<AI_REPOSITORY>dictionaries\ui_en.ail"/> . But when I say git diff for my master branch, it is unable to find this change and doesn't generates difference. If anyone knows the solution for this, please post. I have to push this changes to my build machine which is running Jenkins. The change I did is Translations -> Project Strings -> Control.Text.ExitDialog#LaunchProdText. I am using AI Professional License.

Thanks in advance.

[Daniel]

Hello and welcome to Advanced Installer forums,

First of all I apologize for my delayed reply. We are quite busy at the moment.

I'm not sure why the git diff doesn't catch the change, but please keep in mind that it is not recommended at all to merge content from AIP files. Please take a look on our "Git Merge Issues with AIP" thread which debates a similar topic.

All the best,
Daniel