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WinMerge is a free software tool for data comparison and merging of text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions.
Directory comparison Binary comparison Moved lines 3-way comparison Merge Structured comparison [b] Manual compare alignment Image compare Beyond Compare: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (Files and Folders) Yes (Pro only) Yes Yes Compare++: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (C/C++,C#,Java,Javascript,CSS3) diff: No Yes partly No No No diff3: No No Yes (non-optional ...
Displaying the differences between two or more sets of data, file comparison tools can make computing simpler, and more efficient by focusing on new data and ignoring what did not change. Generically known as a diff [ 1 ] after the Unix diff utility , there are a range of ways to compare data sources and display the results.
Doing a Google search for "non-linear compare" and "nonlinear compare" didn't seem to turn up anything relevant in the first few pages of results. I'd like to propose that this comparison criterion is removed from the list. -- 203.206.161.248 ( talk ) 03:37, 14 April 2008 (UTC) [ reply ]
In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files. Unlike edit distance notions used for other purposes, diff is line-oriented rather than character-oriented, but it is like Levenshtein distance in that it tries to determine the smallest set of deletions and insertions to create one file from the other.
This is a category of articles relating to software which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy: "free software" or "open source software". Typically, this means software which is distributed with a free software license , and whose source code is available to anyone who receives a copy ...
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool, targeted at developers. It allows users to compare two or three files or directories visually, color-coding the different lines. Meld can be used for comparing files, directories, and version controlled repositories.
Beyond Compare is a cross-platform proprietary data comparison utility. The program is able to compare files and multiple types of directories , as well as archives . [ 2 ] Beyond Compare can be configured as a difftool and mergetool of version control systems , such as git .