Configuration and File Differences

In the "Team Maintenance" tutorial, you used the Configuration Manager to create a new configuration of the project, called

Pico_configuration . In this chapter, let's take a look at the Configuration Manager again and use it as a starting point for comparing two file versions of the ansi.c file.

- In any open SNiFF+ tool, choose Tools > Configuration Manager.

In the Configuration Manager

Select the HEAD configuration in the Configuration List (see the following screen shot).
The project's configuration information is loaded into the Configuration Manager.
Your Configuration Manager should look similar to the following:

2. Select the Pico_configuration configuration in the Compared To List.
   You should notice no difference, which means that the

HEAD and Pico_configuration configurations contain the same set of files and file versions.
Differences between two configurations are displayed in the Change List.
Now, select the INIT configuration in the Compared To List.
The Change List should now display differences between the HEAD and the INIT configurations.

- In the Change List, notice the following line:

  The line indicates that different versions of file

ansi.c exist in the two configurations. The icon tells us that the HEAD configuration contains the newer version (1.2), and that the INIT configuration contains the older version (1.1).