Offers a visual highlighting of changes and merging of text files. Filters files based on regular expressions, users include and exclude elements from the selection. Has a handy editor with syntax highlighting, line numbering and line wrapping. A quick comparison takes into account file sizes and dates.
WinMerge is a tool that compares and merges files and folders. This merging utility allows to compare contents of any two files and find the differences between them. It also allows to merge the contents of one file with another's. It can also compare the contents of two folders. After performing a comparison or files or folders, it will present several navigation buttons for browsing through the found differences.
The program also allows to perform various operations over contents of files or folders, like rename, move, copy, delete and zip among many others, all just under one right click of a mouse. This comparing tool offers different customization options as well: changing colors, the way to compare whitespaces, capital letters, comparison method, it can even add columns and make reports. It integrates 7-Zip to be used within the program, provided it is available on one's system. The program suggests backing up files after comparison; it can manage versioning control for the changed files/folders.
Its GUI is simple and friendly to the user. Its installation process is very easy to perform. The documentation included with the program is very detailed; and the website also offers some links and additional information for better use of the application. WinMerge runs on Windows NT4/2000/XP platforms.
v2.16.4 [Jul 28, 2008]
WinMerge 2.14 is an important update to WinMerge. There are lots of improvements and bug fixes since 2.12.4 stable release.
2.14.0 stable release has many changes after beta release. But see also the 2.13 beta release changes below for other important changes in this release.
Improvements:
- Improve startup time.
- Improve editing of linefilter regular expressions.
- Improve color options organization.
Other changes:
- Update PCRE to version 8.10.
- Update SCEW to version 1.1.2.
- Add menuitems for selecting automatic or manual prediffing.
- Add accelerator keys for Shell context menu.
- Allow editing context line count in patch creator.
- Add /xq command line switch for closing WinMerge after identical files and not showing message.
- Allow setting codepage from command line.
- Allow giving encoding name as custom codepage.
- Add new options dialog panel for folder compare options.
- Add options GUI for quick compare limit.
- Write config log as UTF-8 file.
Bugs fixed:
- Untranslated string ("Merge.rc:nnnn") was displayed in status bar.
- Pane headers not updated after language change.
- Quick contents compare didn't ignore EOL byte differences.
- Compare by size always checked file times too.
- Crash when pasting from clipboard.
- Keeps verifing path even turned off in options.
- Crash after deleting text.
- Added EOL chars between copied file/path names.
- Created new matching folder to wrong folder.
- Strange scrolling effect in location pane.
- Plugin error after interrupting folder compare.
- "+" and "-" from the number block don't work in the editor.
- Date format did not respect Regional Settings.
New Translation:
- Basque.
Translation updates:
- Hungarian.
- Turkish.
- Russian.
- Norwegian.
- Danish.
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