- Source: 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.
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 IBM DevOps Code 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.
Codebases and forks
For a planned development of version 3.x no commits have been made to the 3.0 codebase since 2011.
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.
See also
Comparison of file comparison tools
References
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)
