WinMerge
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| File:WinMergeScreenshot.png WinMerge 2.5.x.x under Windows XP | |
| Developer(s) | WinMerge Development Team |
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| Stable release | 2.16.42.1[1] (July 28, 2024) [±] |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | File comparison |
| License | GPL |
| Website | 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.
- 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.
- Creates patch files.
- Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions).
- Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration.
- Archive file support using 7-Zip.
- Plugins.
- Localizable interface via resource DLL.
- Online Manual and installed HTML Help manual.
See also
- meld, KDiff3 - visualize differences very much like kompare, but on top of that allow the user to merge files (simply by picking one of a group of differing blocks of texts) and also edit details of the text. Kompare, on the other hand, is not meant for editing or merging.