Diffuse Merge Tool

    Graphical tool for merging and comparing text files

    • Free • Open Source
    • Diff Tool
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    What is Diffuse Merge Tool?

    Diffuse is a small and simple text merge tool written in Python. With Diffuse, you can easily merge, edit, and review changes to your code.

    Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability to manually adjust line-matching and directly edit files. Diffuse can also retrieve revisions of files from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories for comparison and merging.
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    dandv
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    • Top negative comment  over 4 years ago • 0 replies
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    Diffuse is the fastest Linux-based visual diff tool listed here on AlternativeTo, but it lacks some critical features:

    1. You can't display the files on top of each other. Files are always shown side-by-side.
    2. There's no word wrapping for long lines.
    3. There's no way to see the differences in lines longer than the window width. Combined with 1. and 2. above, this makes the tool impossible to use for files with long lines (e.g. CSVs).
    4. You can't customize the keyboard shortcuts.
    5. There's no special display for moved lines. Meld's display is much nicer - it shows a bubble starting from the source line and ending on the destination line: Meld moved line bubble

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    dandv
    Comment • over 4 years ago • 0 replies
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    The only native Linux tool I've found to diff in under one second two CSV files that only differ in the date format. See https://sourceforge.net/p/kdiff3/bugs/217/ for details.

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    thdox
    Comment • over 10 years ago • 2 replies
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    Diffuse is the only open source linux application that enables manual alignment. kdiff3 has the functionality, but it is less ergonomic.

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    what do you call manual alignment? in linux i use vimdiff or meld. i'm starting to use diffuse when i'm in windows and missing meld.

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    thdox

    On a long text file, with redundant text, the tool is lost.
    Diffuse enables you to tell that line 123 of file 1 must be aligned with line 153 of file 2, and then relaunch the comparison

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    Development • File Management

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    Linux: https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse

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    • Diff Tool
    • text-compare
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    Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Diffuse Merge Tool, and it has gotten 21 likes

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    Diffuse Merge Tool was added to AlternativeTo by 10litrov on Nov 30, 2010 and this page was last updated Nov 22, 2021.

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