Projects

GNU Diff Utilities

The GNU diffutils are comprised of diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp, utilities for showing differences between files. The manual also documents patch, which uses diff output to update files.

WinMerge

WinMerge is a tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between file versions, and then merging those changes. WinMerge has Unicode support, Flexible syntax coloring editor, Visual SourceSafe integration, and ... [More] Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering for filenames and lines. Side-by-side line difference and highlights differences inside lines. A file map shows the overall file differences in a location pane. The user interface is translated into several languages. [Less]

Meld

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically). You can compare two or three folders and launch file comparisons. You can browse and view a working copy from popular version control systems such such as CVS, Subversion, Bazaar-ng and Mercurial.

Kompare (KDE)

claimed by KDE

Kompare is a graphical difference viewer that allows you to visualize changes to a file. Whether you're a developer comparing source code, or you just want to see the difference between that research paper draft and the final document, Kompare is the tool you need.

KDiff3

KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool with integrated editor. It can also compare and merge directories. Platform-independant.

AnyEdit Tools

AnyEdit Tools plugin for Eclipse adds several new tools to the context menu of text- based Eclipse editors, to output consoles, to Eclipse main menu and editor toolbar. AnyEdit contributes also Import/Export working sets wizards. AnyEdit Tools adds new actions to "Compare With" and ... [More] "Replace With" menus in both editors and files. AnyEdit Tools contributes new "Convert" menu in both editors and files, including such actions like "To / From Unicode/Base64/Html entities/Camel case". AnyEdit Tools plugin can (automatically) perform tabs spaces on active aditor, multiple files or entire directories and supports also file exclusion filter for tabs to spaces action. AnyEdit adds "Open File", "Open Type" and "Save to file..." actions to all consoles and editors. [Less]

EMF Compare

claimed by Eclipse Foundation

EMF Compare brings model comparison to the EMF framework. It provides generic support for any kind of metamodel in order to compare and merge models. This component will ultimately provide a stable and efficient generic implementation of model comparison along with an extensible framework for specific comparison needs.

DaisyDiff

Daisy Diff is a Java library that diffs (compares) HTML files. Added and removed words are highlighted and changes to the styling are annotated. This project was a Google Summer of Code project for DaisyCMS. Features * Works with badly formed HTML that can be found "in the ... [More] wild". * The diffing is more specialized in HTML than XML tree differs. Changing part of a text node will not cause the entire node to be changed. * In addition to the default visual diff, HTML source can be diffed coherently. * Provides easy to understand descriptions of the changes. * Allow easy browsing of the modifications through keyboard shortcuts. [Less]

Phoronix Test Suite

The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available for Linux and is designed to carry out qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner.

gdiff-ext

gdiff-ext is a Gnome's Nautilus context menu extension. It adds commands to launch file comparison/merge tools. It also remembers your selection so you can run comparison/merge later on.