comparing without signature block

[Tarjei-stavanger]

I've used WinMerge to compare two instances of TSS from Microsoft. It didn't go well. the new files had all new signatures so it was impossible to compare the script files.

So it would be nice to compare various script files and ignore the signature block.

I suppose that this is most useful for PowerShell with vbscript as a remote second..

[sdottaka]

Is the TSS the TroubleShootingScript below?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/windows-tss/introduction-to-troubleshootingscript-toolset-tss

The signature block exists as a comment, so you can ignore it by enabling the Ignore comment differences option.

However, currently WinMerge does not consider the psm1 extension to be a powershell file, so the # line is not treated as a comment.

For this reason, add ;psm1 to the line with PowerShell in the File Type column in the Editor/Syntax category of the Options window as shown below, and check Ignore comment differences in the Compare/General category. This should cause the differences in the signature block to be ignored.

[Tarjei-stavanger]

You are correct.

Thank you for your tip! It is very useful.