WinMerge is of those application that really make a great difference in development productivity.
It look daunting to use at first sight, but don’t let the look deceive you. Once you start using it, you wonder how you send those years not having something like it.
WinMerge is a visual text file differencing and merging tool. What that means is that it compares 2 text files and show the difference between the 2 files. It also has the ability to merge the differences.
This is best understood by a hands on experience. Just take a file, make some changes and save it to another filename. Open the 2 files for comparison in WinMerge. WinMerge will show where the changes had been made and offers a host of options to merge the changes.
WinMerge is very useful when working in a team or with a version control system like Subversion.
What I like about ?
- Comparing entire directory
- Intuitive to use
- Very simple to merge change
Room for improvement
- When comparing more complex file changes, the alignment between some changes are not matching.
Where to get it?
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/
Current version: 2.4
Function: Visual text file differencing and merging tool
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