WinMerge
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.
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| Developer(s) | WinMerge Development Team |
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| Initial release | November 20, 2000 |
| Stable release | 2.16.18[1] (January 27, 2022) [±] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Data comparison |
| License | GPL |
| Website | winmerge |
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| Developer(s) | jtuc |
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| Initial release | December 3, 2011 |
| Preview release | 2011.009.217
/ May 26, 2019 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Data comparison |
| License | GPL |
| Website | bitbucket |
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| Developer(s) | datadiode |
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| Initial release | December 3, 2011 |
| Preview release | 0.2011.211.170
/ June 5, 2021 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Data comparison |
| License | GPL |
| Website | github |
For a planned development of version 3.x [2] no commits have been made to the 3.0 codebase since 2011.[3]
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.[4]
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.
See also
References
- "Release WinMerge 2.16.18 · WinMerge/winmerge". 2022-01-27. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
- "WinMerge 3.x". wiki. bitbucket. 2011-03-10. Archived from the original on 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
- "commits". wiki. bitbucket. 2011-03-10. Archived from the original on 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
- "WinMerge 2011". bitbucket. 2014-04-28. Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
External links
- Official website
- WinMerge on SourceForge
- Compare and merge files and folders with WinMerge Lifehacker
- WinMerge Portable
- Sdottaka's WinMerge on BitBucket and on GitHub (an active[2017] fork with additional features and Japanese language support) (gone)
- WinMerge 2011 on BitBucket and on GitHub (an active[2017] fork with additional features) (gone)
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