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normal diff only Yes Far Manager (compare) No No No No No No Yes No fc: No No No FileMerge (aka opendiff) No supported by OS No No No Guiffy SureMerge: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [c] IntelliJ IDEA (compare) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes jEdit JDiff plugin: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Lazarus Diff Meld: CVS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Baazar: Yes Yes
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.
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. WinMerge runs on Microsoft Windows.
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 .
In December 2002, Guiffy SureMerge was awarded five out of five cows by Tucows on all 3 platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux). [citation needed] Scott Swedorski, editor-in-chief and founder of Tucows, said, "To our knowledge, Guiffy is the first multi-platform application to receive 5 Cows for all versions."
In computing, fc (File Compare) is a command-line program in DOS, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems, that compares multiple files and outputs the differences between them. [2] [3] It is similar to the Unix commands comm, cmp and diff.
The KDE diff tool Kompare Editing documents, program code, or any data always risks introducing errors. 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.
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.