Displays the differences between the local copy of file or project with the copy stored in the VSS database.
To display the History of File dialog box:
Dialog Box Options
Enter the name of the file you want to compare. Use the Browse button if necessary to find the file. You can browse through files in your VSS projects, or in your Windows folders on your hard disk. To compare to a specific version of a file, you must add a semicolon and version number to the filename. For example:
HELP.C; 5Enter the name of the file you want to compare the first file to. Use the Browse button if necessary to find the file. You can browse through files in your VSS projects, or in your Windows folders on your hard disk.
Click Visual to use the VSS Visual viewer format (a side by side format), click SourceSafe to use the old-style SourceSafe format (showing only the lines added, deleted, or changed), or click Unix to use the Unix format (showing only the changed lines, marking the old and new versions).
Check this box to have VSS ignore differences in white space; that is, lines that differ only in space, tab, or other white space characters.
Check this box to have VSS ignore differences in case.
Confirms your selections.
Cancels your selections.
Allows you to print a report of the error information to the Clipboard, a printer, or a file.
Advanced Options
Click this button to specify advanced File Difference options.
Check this box to have VSS ignore differences in the file caused by development on differing operating systems (such as end of line characters).
Check this box to save the settings you have chosen for use in subsequent Show Difference operations.
Check this box to show contextual information. (Essentially, this means that besides showing just a changed line, VSS will also show the lines surrounding the changed line to provide some context to the information.) This option does not apply when you are using the visual format, only to the SourceSafe and Unix formats.
If Show Context is checked, this box lets you specify the number of lines of contextual (surrounding) information you wish to see.
Skips this dialog box during future file difference operations, and uses the settings you've entered as the default. To restore the dialog box, clear the appropriate box on the Command Dialogs tab in the SourceSafe Options dialog box. Pressing the SHIFT key when clicking the Show Difference command always displays this dialog box, overriding the setting on the Command Dialogs tab.