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WinMerge

WinMerge 2.7.x.x under Windows XP
Developed by	WinMerge Development Team
Initial release	?
Written in	Visual C++
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	Multilingual
Type	File comparison
License	GPL
Website	winmerge.org

WinMerge is a free software, open source tool for file comparison and merging text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge runs on Microsoft Windows.

[edit] 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.
• 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.

[edit] See also

• Comparison of file comparison tools
• Kompare
• meld, KDiff3 - visualize differences very much like Kompare, but also allow merging files and editing details of the text.