Format XML before checkin and compare and merge

[StevenTCramer@gmail.com]

So I have a tool that saves project files as XML but they store it as one long string.  I want to run XMLTidy on the files before putting them in the repo.  Also if I do a diff or a merge on a file I would like them formated as well.

 

I set my diff tool to External for files of type *.gfa with the following:

TidyGfa.bat @sourcefile @destinationfile

Where TidyGfa is:

 

tidy -i -m -xml %1
tidy -i -m -xml %2
mergetool -s="%1" -d="%2"

I also did it in powershell which seemed a lot more trouble:

 

But this only formats when doing a diff.  A merge is more complicated and a trigger also.

 

Has anyone done something similar?

 

 

 

[manu]

Hi Steven,

 

I'm not sure if you are having an error or why it's not working.

 

You should also create a custom merge tool, it can be a simple batch file that uses the tidy tool first and then:

 

mergetool.exe -s=%source% -b=%base% -d=%destination% -r=%result%