WinMerge
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 WinMerge 2.7.x.x under Windows XP |
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| Developed by | WinMerge Development Team |
| Initial release | ? |
| Stable release | 2.8.0 (April 3, 2008) [+/−] |
| Preview release | 2.8 RC (March 4, 2008) [+/−] |
| Written in | Visual C++ |
| OS | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Genre | File comparison |
| License | GPL |
| Website | winmerge.org |
WinMerge is a free software, open source tool for file comparison and merging text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions.
WinMerge runs on Microsoft Windows.
[edit] 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.
- 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.
[edit] See also
- Comparison of file comparison tools
- Kompare
- meld, KDiff3 - visualize differences very much like Kompare, but also allow merging files and editing details of the text.
