winmerge

What is winmerge?

WinMerge is an open-source differencing and merging tool for Windows that enables users to easily compare and synchronize both folders and files. It presents differences in a clear, visual text format, providing a user-friendly and intuitive interface for managing content changes

Highlights

• Visual differencing and merging capabilities for text files
• Flexible text editor with features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, and word-wrap
• Support for various text file formats, including DOS, Unix, and Mac
• Unicode support for handling files in different character encodings
• Difference pane displaying current differences in two vertical panes
• Location pane providing an overview map of the files being compared
• Highlighting of differences within individual lines in file comparisons
• Ability to generate HTML reports with differences highlighted
• Regular expression-based file filters for directory comparisons, allowing for selective inclusion and exclusion of items
• Detection of moved lines in file comparisons
• Options to ignore whitespace and case changes
• Generation of patch files
• Shell integration for 64-bit Windows versions
• Support for integrating with version control systems like Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase
• Archive file support using 7-Zip
• Plug-in functionality
• Language localization through plain-text PO files
• Comprehensive online and installed HTML help manual
• Generation of normal, context, and unified patches