Meld - text and directory comparison

[webfork]

This is a great program, definitely a possible replacement for some of the more specific, detailed operations I once used FreeFileSync for. I'm really impressed.

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems.

Usage notes:

• * I love the tabbed comparison so you can run multiple checks at once
  
  * Includes filters
  
  * Works on files and folders, and you can right click on a given file (if text format) to open it in the comparison window
  
  * Allows the viewing of 3 panes of changes for a more detailed understanding
  
  * The program auto-detects changes and prompts you to reload

Screens:

• Example 3 pane folder view
  http://i.imgur.com/4GBPRlv.png
  
  Example 3 pane text view
  http://i.imgur.com/SqvKFZW.png

License: GPL v2

Steps: Biorube's Uniextract (the latest), run Meld.exe

Portable: probably not: I believe it's writing to the registry but my test didn't work correctly so I'm not sure. Either way, it creates an empty folder in AppData


Sites:

• http://meldmerge.org/
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meld_(software)
  http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Fil ... Meld.shtml

[smaragdus]

To my knowledge Meld is not portable:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GSettings\org\gnome\meld

and it saves data in:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\meld

Once I tested it and I was thinking to write about it here but in fact didn't like it very much and didn't get used to it.

One of the screens I once prepared:



And two more links:

Meld - Windows downloads - https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/meld/
Meld at AlternativeTo - https://alternativeto.net/software/meld/

[webfork]

I checked in on this project earlier this year and it looked to be offline, but development seems to have resumed with some nice updates:

https://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog ... 51877.html

Although the program can be extracted, it doesn't look like there are any new features addressing portability.

[webfork]

Update: retested v.3.18.3 with uniextract and now settings are saved only to the registry location mentioned above, not AppData. Though an empty folder is still created there.

Status: not portable