About this task
To start Rational Rhapsody DiffMerge outside Rational Rhapsody,
use any of these methods:
- From the Windows Start
menu, choose .
- Use Windows Explorer
to navigate to the Rational Rhapsody installation
folder (for example, <product installation path>\Rhapsody753),
and double-click the DiffMerge.exe file.
The advantage to starting the product outside Rational Rhapsody is
that Rational Rhapsody DiffMerge has
greater flexibility. When you are using Rational Rhapsody DiffMerge outside Rational Rhapsody,
you must locate the files to compare and bring them into Rational Rhapsody DiffMerge.
Starting the product outside Rational Rhapsody is
useful if your comparison has any of these characteristics:
- Units are stored as separate files in a configuration
management system or a directory that is not under source control.
- Units are the same type, but they might have different
file names because you are able to enter different file names during
the selection step.
Note: Always use
Rational Rhapsody DiffMerge outside
Rational Rhapsody to
compare two units to a base unit (three units; see
Results displayed for compare of three units). If you
are comparing two units, you can use
Rational Rhapsody DiffMerge inside
or outside
Rational Rhapsody depending
on whether the units have different names.