What is WinMerge? Diff 툴

What is WinMerge?  Diff 툴

 

WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

Source Code - WinMerge

Features

WinMerge is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application.

In addition, WinMerge has many helpful supporting features that make comparing, synchronising, and merging as easy and useful as possible:

General

• Supports Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or newer
• Handles Windows, Unix and Mac text file formats
• Unicode support
• Tabbed interface

File Compare

• 3-way File Comparison New!
• Visual differencing and merging of text files
• Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
• Highlights differences inside lines
• Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
• Location pane shows map of files compared
• Moved lines detection

Folder Compare

• Regular Expression based file filters allow excluding and including items
• Fast compare using file sizes and dates
• Compares one folder or includes all subfolders
• Can show folder compare results in a tree-style view
• 3-way Folder Comparison

Image Compare New!

• Support many types of images
• Can highlight the differences with blocks
• Overlaying of the pictures is possible

Table Compare New!

• Shows CSV/TSV file contents in table format
• Text can be wrapped for each column

Version Control

• Creates patch files (Normal-, Context- and Unified formats)
• Resolve conflict files

Other

• Shell Integration (supports 64-bit Windows versions)
• Archive file support using 7-Zip
• Plugin support
• Localizable interface
• Online manual and installed HTML Help manual

WinMerge 2.16.16 - latest stable version

WinMerge 2.16.16 is the latest stable version, and is recommended for most users.

Project News 

• WinMerge 2.16.4 (stable) released 2019-08-02
• WinMerge 2.16.2 (stable) released 2019-04-04
• WinMerge 2.16.0 (stable) released 2018-11-27
• A sign of life from WinMerge 2018-01-29
• WinMerge 2.14.0 (stable) released 2013-02-03
• View all news…

Support

If you need support, look at our support page for more information how you can get it.

Developers

WinMerge is an open source project, which means that the program is maintained and developed by volunteers.

In addition, WinMerge is translated into a number of different languages. See our information on translating WinMerge into your own language.