Subclipse Compare

Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE.
In the following posts, I’ll mention some features of Subclipse that I found interesting in investigating the history of changes made to a software code base.

The Subclipse Compare tool shows the differences among the selected files in two views: Java Source Compare and Java Structure Compare.
As show in the figure, the Java Source Compare pane is much like ordinary diff tools in the way it shows the differences by connecting a piece of code in the new version to the corresponding one in the old version.
The Java Structure Compare pane gives us an overall view of how the selected class has evolved. You can tell from the figure what methods have been added and removed from the class. I found the idea of showing changes in a high-level structural view interesting. However, I think more can be done in this regard to give the developer a better understanding of changes. Please feel free to leave your comments on how the Subclipse Compare tool can be enhanced.

Update: As Mark Phippard (the project lead for Subclipse) stated in his comment, the Compare Tool is part of Eclipse itself. I was merely explaining the kind of features one gets by installing the Subclipse plug-in for Eclipse. Therefore, I was careless about making distinctions between components provided by Eclipse and those provided by Subclipse.