WinMerge

Infobox Software
name = WinMerge



caption = WinMerge 2.7.x.x under Windows XP
developer = WinMerge Development Team
released = ?
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = Visual C++
operating system = Microsoft Windows
language = [http://winmerge.org/Wiki/index.php?title=Translations Multilingual]
genre = File comparison
license = GPL
website = [http://winmerge.org winmerge.org]

WinMerge is a free software, open source tool for file comparison and merging text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions.

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.
* 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 [http://winmerge.org/2.6/manual/index.html Manual] and installed HTML Help manual.

See also

*Comparison of file comparison tools
*Kompare
*meld, [http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ KDiff3] - visualize differences very much like Kompare, but also allow merging files and editing details of the text.

External links

* [http://winmerge.org/ Official website]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge/ WinMerge project page] on SourceForge