WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
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WinMerge
Features
WinMerge is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application.
In addition, WinMerge has many helpful supporting features that make comparing, synchronising, and merging as easy and useful as possible:
General
- Supports Microsoft Windows XP or newer.
- Handles Windows, Unix and Mac text file formats.
- Unicode support.
- Tabbed interface.
File Compare
- 3-way File Comparison New!
- Visual differencing and merging of text files.
- Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap.
- Highlights differences inside lines.
- Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes.
- Location pane shows map of files compared.
- Moved lines detection.
Folder Compare
- Regular Expression based file filters allow excluding and including items
- Fast compare using file sizes and dates
- Compares one folder or includes all subfolders
- Can show folder compare results in a tree-style view
- 3-way Folder Comparison Work in progress
Image Compare
- Support many types of images.
- Can highlight the differences with blocks.
- Overlaying of the pictures is possible.
Version Control
- Creates patch files (Normal-, Context- and Unified formats).
- Resolve conflict files.
Other
- Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions).
- Archive file support using 7-Zip.
- Plugin support.
- Localizable interface.
- Online manual and installed HTML Help manual.
Additional information
- Version2.16.24
- Last update2022-11-10
- Downloads626
- LicenseFree
- Size8.3MB
- RequiresWindows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10
- CategoryCompression and Backup/ Compression
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