Similar to other ideas, any project option to ignore should give ability not to display ignored option finds in comparison result
The project option gives you the ability to ignore based on certain filters e.g. white space. However, if any other difference is found, when you display the comparison it highlights the things you told it to ignore. If in the case of white space, every line shows a highlighted difference for a white space difference, but the one actual difference you are looking for is impossible to find without scanning the whole comparison. Ignore should give you the ability to ignore in the comparison view also (for any ignore project option).
Kelly Organ
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Marc L. Allen
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I'll add my voice to this...
I'll believe you when you say it's not easy... but obviously the information is tracking somewhere, because the summary view is able to ignore it. So, I'd think you can flag the difference as "not important" and the diff comparison can just not highlight it.
The summary can also be improved by being able to double-click or something on the summary item and then go to the code.
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Casey Plummer
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I would like to add that this also affects the generated HTML reports. So as a communication tool to a coworker its kind of become useless.
Me: Here's a report. Fix your scripts please.
Coworker: But we don't care about default value constraint names.
Me: Yah I know, but just ignore those in the report.
Coworker: Okay but there's a lot to ignore. How do I find what to fix? -
Casey Plummer
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My related support ticket where I asked about the same thing. Has screenshots.
https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/comment/155311 -
We've actually fixed this for whitespace specifically in a recent release (12.0.39.3632) so that might be worth checking out. I agree for the more general case, though - we're looking into ways of making the text diff comparison smarter, but we don't have any definite plans yet.
