How to track changes in code

Can anyone recommend a good app for tracking changes i make in code? I have two saved files and i'd like to see whats different in them. I dont need any syntax or anything, i just want it to highlight the stuff that is different in two files. Google is my friend, but it wont eat the keywords i give it, and your experience will help me. Cheers.

Search for CVS : http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

to tell the differences between two existing files created before you start using CVS, you can use a DIFF app.

Yea i found ExamDiff
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff

That took aggges to find, i never knew the used term is "Differencing" thats what i needed.

Thanks.

Also you can paste it into MS Word and make two docs and then use Tools\Track Chagnes\Compare Documents.

Subversion for version control and tortoise svn as a front end which has a very handy inbuilt diff.

Perforce is great to use for a single developer.

Also, I keep an archive of each working sub-version of a game (happens every few days) so I can go back and check them if I break the code, this is very useful.

Windows comes with a little executable called "fc" or 'file comparison" which has been around since the days of DOS. Although it may only show the byte differences, not sure. But you can try it with some syntax like (at the command line)

fc filename1 filename2 >> textfiletoputitin.txt

For tracking changes, I always keep a modification history section, right in the project's source code. Any changes I make to a version is documented there, and the date that was done is shown too. It is alot of over-head work for me (along with the rest of the internal documentation I do for my projects), and I don't always remember to actually update the logs, but it works out in the long run.

Avoid CVS.

Use Subversion.

http://subversion.tigris.org/

How about we make one?

Im gonna type and think here.

Graphics 500,300,16,2
AppTitle "Comparing Docs"

file1=ReadFile("file1.bb")
out1=WriteFile("temp1.dat")
Repeat
   in$=Trim(ReadLine(file1))
   If in$>""
      WriteLine(out1,in$)
   EndIf
Until Eof(file1)
CloseFile(file1)
CloseFile(out1)

file2=ReadFile("file2.bb")
out2=WriteFile("temp2.dat")
Repeat
   in$=Trim(ReadLine(file2))
   If in$>""
      WriteLine(out2,in$)
   EndIf
Until Eof(file2)
CloseFile(file2)
CloseFile(out2)

comp1=ReadFile("temp1.dat")
comp2=ReadFile("temp2.dat")
Repeat
   in1$=ReadLine(comp1)
   in2$=ReadLine(comp2)
   If in1$<>in2$
      Print in2$
   Else If in1$="" Or in2=""
      Print "Pre-terminated file or empty line."
   End If
Until Eof(comp1) Or Eof(comp2)
CloseFile(comp1)
CloseFile(comp2)
Print "Done"
WaitKey()
End

That's really not gonna work very well, PCD. Not well at all...

I use subversion too. It rocks.

ohh well I tried....

not vary hard... nevermind then.

http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/CSDiff/

Try this one