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WinMerge

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Written in
  
Visual C++

Operating system
  
Microsoft Windows

WinMerge

Developer(s)
  
WinMerge Development Team

Initial release
  
November 20, 2000; 16 years ago (2000-11-20)

Stable release
  
2.14.0 (February 2, 2013; 4 years ago (2013-02-02)) [±]

Preview release
  
2.13.22 (svn) (January 13, 2013; 4 years ago (January 13, 2013)) [±]

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.

The project is currently in background development of version 3.x, with no known date for release. No commits have been made to the 3.0 codebase since 2011.

In 2011 a fork of the 2.x codebase titled "WinMerge 2011" was created. This new branch has continued to see active feature and bug fix development. It has also removed ATL/MFC dependencies so that WinMerge can be built using the free Visual C++ Express editions.

WinMerge runs on Microsoft Windows.

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 (as of version 2.8.0, UTF-8 files are correctly read without a BOM).
  • Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes.
  • Location pane shows map of files compared.
  • Highlights differences inside lines in file compare.
  • Can also generate HTML report with differences highlighted.
  • Regular expression based file filters in directory compare allow excluding and including items.
  • Moved lines detection in file compare.
  • Ability to ignore whitespace and letter case changes.
  • Creates patch files.
  • Shell integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions).
  • Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration.
  • Archive file support using 7-Zip.
  • Plug-ins.
  • Language localization via plain-text PO files.
  • Online manual and installed HTML help manual.
  • Generates normal, context, and unified patches.

    • References

    WinMerge Wikipedia
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