April 8th, 2022
Jace Talk: Beyond Compare
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Yeah, so we kind of just use both.
Another tool our programmers use is called Beyond Compare.
And Beyond Compare is a tool for diffing and merging.
And what that means is that when, for example, when a programmer wants to submit their code to the Perforce server, they need to diff and merge their files to make sure that there's no conflict.
So sometimes different people will be editing the same file.
And so when you try to merge those together, you need to figure out what are the differences, that's the diffing, and then how to merge the code together so that it actually all still works.
and that's the merging part.
So Beyond Compare is a tool that assists with that.
Perforce actually has one of these tools already built in, but many of our programmers prefer to use Beyond Compare.
They think it has a few extra features and yeah, they just prefer that.
Some of us still use the Perforce diff tools as well.