Preparing Your Files for a View Compare/Merge Session

Before starting a View Compare/Merge session, take the following steps to prepare your files.

Note: To compare or merge specific items in a view, or all items in specific folders in the view, start the View Compare/Merge session from the Advanced context menu on the selected items, rather than from the View menu. When you start a View Compare/Merge session from the View menu, all items of requested types and folders in the view are included.

Check in any modified files that will be part of the session, and optionally create a view or revision label to use for the source.
Select the views you want to compare and set their properties to permit items to branch on change.
Note: The target view is the only view that receives the results of the merge.
Decide whether you want to merge all changes in a view, or merge changes to selected items in a view.
Select individual items in the upper pane if you are including specific items in the View Compare/Merge session. You can select multiple items on multiple component tabs, including the Folder tab.