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
Developer(s)WinMerge Development Team
Initial releaseNovember 20, 2000 (2000-11-20)
Stable release2.16.8[1] (August 28, 2020 (2020-08-28)) [±]
Repository
Written inC++
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
Available inMultilingual
TypeData comparison
LicenseGPL
Websitewinmerge.org
WinMerge 2011
Developer(s)jtuc
Initial releaseDecember 3, 2011 (2011-12-03)
Preview release
2011.009.217 / May 26, 2019 (2019-05-26)
Repository
Written inC++
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
Available inMultilingual
TypeData comparison
LicenseGPL
Websitebitbucket.org/jtuc/winmerge2011

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
  1. "Release WinMerge 2.16.8 · WinMerge/winmerge". 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  2. "WinMerge 3.x". wiki. bitbucket. 2011-03-10. Archived from the original on 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
  3. "commits". wiki. bitbucket. 2011-03-10. Archived from the original on 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  4. "WinMerge 2011". bitbucket. 2014-04-28. Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
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