compare without baseline

[mrblack12]

Hi,
I am working on a project in which several copies of the same EA element (say a Class) has been placed in more than one package. Not very effective from a version control PoV, I admit, but that's how it is.

What I'm looking for is a way to compare those elements across the packages to see where differences have emerged. To complicate things we have not created a baseline :-/. Any suggestions as how to go about this?

Thanx in advance...

[Nizam Mohamed]

EA's built in diff / merge tool works based on GUIDs and if you've created copies (pasted as new elements) in different packages, the GUIDS are reset and hence EA may not be able to ascertain the differences for you.

This elements with same names could be selected using a custom query, and the analysis should be

• Either done manually (or)
• you might have write a simple addin to analyse and show or merge the differences.