WinMerge
WinMerge is an open source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
What is WinMerge?
WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle. 32 languages. With the xdocdiff-Plugin you even can compare Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and some more files.
Since version 2.16 it's a a mirror release of a fork
WinMerge JP.
Features
Visual differencing and merging of text files.
Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap.
Handles DOS, Unix and Mac text file formats.
Unicode support (as of version 2.8.0, UTF-8 files are correctly read without a BOM).
Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes.
Location pane shows map of files compared.
Highlights differences inside lines in file compare.
Can also generate HTML report with differences highlighted.
Regular expression based file filters in directory compare allow excluding and including items.
Moved lines detection in file compare.
Ability to ignore whitespace and letter case changes.
Creates patch files.
Shell integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions).
Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration.
Archive file support using
7-Zip .
Plug-ins.
Language localization via plain-text PO files.
Online manual
and installed HTML help manual.
Generates normal, context, and unified patches.
Since version 2.16 it's a a mirror release of a fork
WinMerge JP.Features
Visual differencing and merging of text files.
Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap.
Handles DOS, Unix and Mac text file formats.
Unicode support (as of version 2.8.0, UTF-8 files are correctly read without a BOM).
Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes.
Location pane shows map of files compared.
Highlights differences inside lines in file compare.
Can also generate HTML report with differences highlighted.
Regular expression based file filters in directory compare allow excluding and including items.
Moved lines detection in file compare.
Ability to ignore whitespace and letter case changes.
Creates patch files.
Shell integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions).
Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration.
Archive file support using
7-Zip .Plug-ins.
Language localization via plain-text PO files.
Online manual
and installed HTML help manual.
Generates normal, context, and unified patches.
Recent user activities on WinMerge
- mmv liked WinMergemm
- bicukow added WinMerge as alternative(s) to Folder Merger
- Ola added Diff Tool as a feature to WinMergeOl
3 pane compare. Extremely useful for resolving conflicts when programming.
Very easy to use, and very powerful conflict manager where you can pick the changes from either side, save at the end, and look over nested file structure.
Just needed to find why two folders had different qty of items. WM found the "missing" files in a couple of seconds. Easy-peasy.
Versatile and fast! Fires up in milliseconds.
Works well with comparing folders and files.
Very good app, unfortunately it doesn't have the capability to output difference reports like BC. In most engineering environments this is a must.
[Edited by NuncioBitis, April 13]
While I'm definitely not using it fpr what it's purpose truly is for, it is handy for finding identical files, to know, that the next release won't have the same or repeating files, as the next one.