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michael_rainwater

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Anyone else tried the Diff Utility?
« on: May 20, 2005, 08:45:41 am »
I've been trying the Diff utility in EA 5.0 recently and have not had much luck with it.  Has anyone else here had similar experience?

Here is what I've done:
1) Create a simple class diagram with 2 classes.  Add some attributes and operations.

2) Export the entire package to XMI.

3) Add another class.  Add some more attributes and operations to all 3 classes.  Add comments to all three.

4) Use the Diff utility to compare with the XMI on my disk.

The compare shows me nicely that the new class was added.  But I can't find where it has found the new attributes, operations, or changes to the comments.  It also doesn't seem to see if the change the signature of an operation (pretty big deal to me).

If it doesn't do this, I can't figure out how I might use it.

Before I enter a bug report I thought I'd ask this group what you think.  Since I haven't seen any complaints about this, it seemed like I was reading something wrong in the results.