WinMerge
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 WinMerge 2.5.x.x under Windows XP |
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| Maintainer: | WinMerge Development Team |
| Stable release: | 2.6.4 (January 17, 2007) [+/-] |
| Preview release: | 2.7.2 (Feb 27, 2007) [+/-] |
| OS: | Microsoft Windows |
| Use: | File comparison |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | winmerge.org |
WinMerge is a free software 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.
- 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.
- Creates patch files.
- Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions).
- Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration.
- Archive file support using 7-Zip.
- Plugins.
- Localizable interface via resource DLL.
- Online Manual and installed HTML Help manual.
