Recommended way of comparing two Umbraco instances
I have 2 identical Umbraco versions stood up in my localhost environment. Instance A and Instance B. I have made multiple modifications to Instance A, while Instance B is still in vanilla condition. What would be a good tool or practice for comparing (read only) file changes between both instances? (i.e. what files were created, what folders were created, what files were modified)
I feel I'm pretty knowledgeable with Visual Studio 2017, but I am not sure how to do this comparison process.
If I go down that road, can I compare changes locally (offline) between the 2 instances, or do i need to push both Umbraco instances to a remote repository? What have Umbraco developers done in this situation?
Thanks for any direction in this specific request.
Recommended way of comparing two Umbraco instances
I have 2 identical Umbraco versions stood up in my localhost environment. Instance A and Instance B. I have made multiple modifications to Instance A, while Instance B is still in vanilla condition. What would be a good tool or practice for comparing (read only) file changes between both instances? (i.e. what files were created, what folders were created, what files were modified)
I feel I'm pretty knowledgeable with Visual Studio 2017, but I am not sure how to do this comparison process.
Thanks for any tips!
Hi Blackhawk
As for me the easiest way to do it - use Git
Just compare the changes that you made in source control tool
Alex
If I go down that road, can I compare changes locally (offline) between the 2 instances, or do i need to push both Umbraco instances to a remote repository? What have Umbraco developers done in this situation?
Thanks for any direction in this specific request.
Why do you want to compare 2 Umbraco instances?
Usually, I'm using Git from the start, so all my changes are tracked by Git
Alex
because I am trying to apply all changes I made in Instance A, into Instance B. I want a clean way of seeing what needs to be carried over.
You can do it like that
You have 2 Umbraco instances with the same code, both instances are in Git repos
You made changes to A, look what did you change with Git and copy these changes to B
Alex
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