I’ve recently started a new job where I have taken over developing an existing system. The system (PHP site if it matters) was setup with three instances.
- Live site (Used by staff and customers)
- Test site (Mainly used to demonstrate feature requests to staff)
- Dev site (Used by the previous developer)
This seemed like a reasonable thing to do (They didn’t have a SVN server setup). But now that I’m a couple weeks in, I’ve noticed that the code (and database schemas) is different across all three sites. I expected there to be differences between dev and live, but live has features that dev doesn’t.
I’ve run CLOC and I am looking at around 180 modified files and 110 new files between the different versions. Is there any software or easier method to compare the code across all the versions than just performing diffs file by file?
meldis excellent for comparing entire folders (and files) recursively in a drill-down style.