Re: [Gramps-users] tools to compare two Family Trees

[Patrick G. <pat...@gm...>]

Le 13/04/2020 à 17:19, Enno Borgsteede a écrit :
>
> Hello Deborah,
>
>> I found gedcom diff here: https://github.com/elliotchance/gedcom and 
>> the releases (built binaries, no packages) for mac, windows and linux 
>> here: https://github.com/elliotchance/gedcom/releases.
>
> I tried it, but am not very fond of it. Reason is that when I let it 
> compare GEDCOM files exported from Gramps with a little over a month 
> between them, it does not give me a proper view of the changes that I 
> made in that month, which is what I expect a diff to do. Loading the 
> files into a program like WinMerge works way better for this.
>
> For a proper compare, I expect that, especially when files come from 
> the same program, the program can quickly find out which persons were 
> removed, which ones were added, and for which ones details were 
> changed, and that's not what this program do.
>
If your purpose is only to see the evolution of your tree, i.e. it does 
not involve exteranl imported data, you can do this much more 
comfortably with filters.

For every object category (person, family, event, …), the "general 
filters" have a rule named "xxx objects modified after <date>". You 
access this feature clicking on the filter editor button at right of 
"Filter:" line. You can then create your own custom filter with the 
rules you need (add them with the + button; this is where you can select 
the aforementioned rule). Give a name to this filter for future use. It 
is saved in the Gramps DB, thus available when you reopen Gramps.

With such a filter and a well chosen date, you can monitor your research 
progress.

Patrick