Comparing, QuickDiff and Restoring

Often, you want to see what actual changes you have done. To do this, you can use the "Compare With" and QuickDiff functions.

Setting the QuickDiff provider

It's as easy as right-clicking in the QuickDiff marker line to the immediate left of Eclipse's text editor(s).

Activating the pristine SVN resource version as the QuickDiff reference

Now, you can just hover the mouse over the QuickDiff marker line to see what was changed locally.

To set this permanently, you may use the Window > Preferences > Workbench > Editors > QuickDiff page, where you can select the "Pristine SVN Copy" in the QuickDiff reference list box:

Use this preference setting to permanently set the QuickDiff reference