Copia Automation delivers modern developer tools for industrial automation. Our Git-based source control solution for PLCs streamlines workflows for faster delivery and maximized uptime.
A Diff is a comparison between two commits, or project snapshots. A Diff contains concise information about what exactly is different between the two versions. Traditionally, a Diff is purely text-based, and can only be effectively leveraged for text-based files.
Copia developed Visual Diffs, or VisDiffs, to overcome this limitation for PLC code. With VisDiffs, Copia’s Git-based source control makes it easy to see what changed from one version to the next, just by clicking on a commit, either in Copia’s Desktop App, or in a web browser, on Copia’s Web App.
When viewing a Diff in Copia, it’s usually most helpful to view only the parts of the PLC code which have changed. By default, Copia hides things that haven’t changed, but it’s easy to show unchanged elements with the View Options dropdown menus.
Along with giving the ability to easily see what changed in a single commit, Copia also allows users to compare non-sequential commits, with just a couple extra clicks.
This makes it easy to see changes in bulk, allowing users to compare, for example, the current version of development code to the last major release version.
This ability extends further, and allows users to even compare commits across different branches, allowing users to easily compare any two versions of a PLC project, even, for example, two coexisting, current versions of a PLC project undergoing parallel or multi-user development.
