Let's take a look at how to accomplish this: This is very important when knowing how to include/exclude files. Remember, when working with araxis filtering, the patterns you create work from "top to bottom". How we design our filters is really up to you but in this case, I'm going to show you how to just view. So, what can we do to clean some of this up?įiltering allows you to include/exclude files and folders that you want to compare versus having everything right in front of you. In addition, some changes may just include headers and footers which really don't need to be compared as these will change per version anyways. First, you have a very long list of files here and some of it you really don't need to be comparing.
We can then take the list of files that were modified and compare them to the latest new upgrade version and merge the code into the newest version. We can cross-compare our hacked current version with the clean current version to isolate which files may have been modified, creating a list of these modified files. You would want your modified code to be incorporated into the newest version you are upgrading to so that your upgrade goes smoothly and without any hitches.īy having 3 versions, we are able to cross compare in two ways. Your current hacked version may contain modifications to files such as index.php, includes/functions.php, global.php etc.
Which version should I use? Professional VersionĪraxis Professional will allow you to easily upgrade your vbulletin boards and provides extensive comparison scanning for up to 3 versions. Work with source hierarchies containing thousands of files. Use it to compare and merge source code, web pages and other text files with native application performance. Merge is the visual file comparison (diff), merging and folder synchronization application from Araxis.