WinMerge - text and file comparison

[dtoxic]

care to elaborate how to achieve this on the start window? here is how it looks on the one i posted

https://i.imgur.com/p72hNua.png

[billon]

WinMerge 2.15.2 is a beta release which mainly adds support for experimental 3-way comparison and image comparison.

[dtoxic]

guess i missed that, thx for the info!

[webfork]

guess i missed that, thx for the info!

Same here, thanks billon.

[webfork]

So it looks like the WinPenPack version is lagging behind the PortableApps' version by over 6 months. I'll also try to also retest the no-install version to see if it's natively portable.

[webfork]

So it looks like the WinPenPack version is lagging behind the PortableApps' version by over 6 months. I'll also try to also retest the no-install version to see if it's natively portable.

Well it's been another month and no change. The noinstall version is still saving to HKCU\Software\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge\

Additionally, the WinMerge site is listing the PA version under "Unofficial Versions": https://winmerge.org/downloads/?lang=en

As a result, I'm going to move the WinPenPack version currently posted over to the PA version.

[webfork]

I was curious what the program did with image comparison so I took a local image



... and made minor edits:



Here's what the comparison tool caught. It saw my changes, along with the resulting JPEG compression:

[webfork]

A fork of WinMerge has appeared called WinMerge 2011: https://github.com/datadiode/winmerge2011/

Just the screenshots on the website look very interesting, with some spreadsheet comparison elements I haven't seen anywhere else.



PortableApps has been on top of this for some time and has put out a release for this package https://portableapps.com/news/2021-01-3 ... 1-released

[webfork]

Here's how WinMerge 2011 evaluated two slightly different desktop background images dragged into the program:

Here's the program view of two Excel files:

[webfork]

This is old news and covers a web-based tool called "Diffchecker", but I'm posting it to this thread because WinMerge is a better change tracking program.

Regardless of what tool you use, it's hard to ignore the fact that seeing crucial changes, in this case on Twitter's "terms of service" agreement (https://www.diffchecker.com/N1cAYuis), is very useful. Once you know about programs like these, it's hard to imagine going without.

(Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31351013)