December 15, 2003

Visual text file differencing and merging tool

There are bunch of free file merging and content differencing tools availble, some of these which I found are:

1) Win Merge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
Features

  • Visual differencing of text files

  • Syntax highlighting

  • Diff a single file, or entire directories

  • File filters in directory diff

  • Merge differences

  • Directory recursion

  • Integrated editor (with multi-level undo/redo)

  • Find & Replace

  • Drag & Drop support

  • Option for integration with Windows Explorer

  • Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration

  • Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats

  • Localizable interface via resource DLL

  • HTML-based User's Guide


    • More at: WinMerge

    2) ComponentSoftware Diff (CSDiff) is a free, advanced file-difference analysis tool for Microsoft Windows. CSDiff is a great asset to anyone in need of analyzing changes which have been made between two revisions of the same file or folder. CSDiff is commonly used when analyzing program source files, HTML documents and MS-Word documents.
    More at: CSDiff


    3) DLSuperCBT compares binary files for differences and resynchronizes between byte mismatches. Reports differences as hex dump with ASCII equivalent characters as an adjacent line. Allows partial compare of both files using offset values. Registered free upon request via web site.

    More at: DLSuperCBT - Synchonizing Byte Compare Program V2.1


    FreeDiff is a free file difference viewer for Windows 95/98/ME - Windows 2000/NT/XP. Use it to analyze the changes between two revisions of a file. FreeDiff can be used to locate the differences in program source code files, HTML documents, and any other ASCII-based text files. A color-coded side-by-side display of the comparison results makes it easy to understand the differences between the two files at a glance

    FreeDiff – File Difference Viewer

    Posted by Anilzown at December 15, 2003 03:30 PM
    Comments

    Hey, here's a diff utility that comes with source code. http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/vdiff.asp

    Posted by: anupriyo at December 18, 2003 12:56 PM