You can compare entire drives and folders at high speed, checking just sizes and modified times, or thoroughly verify every file with byte-by-byte comparisons. Once you’ve found specific files you’re interested in, Beyond Compare can intelligently pick the best way to compare and display them. Beyond Compare is a multi-platform utility that combines directory compare and file compare functions in one package. Use it to manage source code, keep directories in sync, compare program output, etc. The program lets you compare files included in an FTP and also supports the use of filters to carry out specific comparisons. Plus, Beyond Compare also includes a very simple text editor, great for modifying programming files without having to resort to other external applications.
- Beyond Compare 4.3.5
- Beyond Compare Three Way Compare
- Text Compare Beyond Compare
- Beyond Compare 4 3 Way Compare
Beyond Compare has been my favorite comparison tool for a while now. It is cross-platform and makes diffs and 3-way merges very easy to understand and visualize.
Configuring Beyond Compare 4
To get it working on any linux flavor is pretty straight forward. Run these commands from terminal:
In order to get directory diffs working (e.g.
git difftool --dir-diff
), I had to tweak the settings a little bit. By default, git uses symlinks to do the directory diff and BC4 will not follow those by default yielding something that looks like this:There are a couple of ways to fix this (courtesy of StackOverflow). The approach I like is updating Beyond Compare to follow the symlinks.
In the Folder Compare, click the Rules toolbar button (referee icon). Go to the Handling tab. Check Follow symbolic links. To make this affect all new sessions, change the dropdown at the bottom of the dialog from Use for this view only to Also update session defaults before you click OK.
On Windows, in addition to the above commands, you need to tell git the path to
bcomp.exe
:You don’t need to do anything special to get directory diffs working on Windows.
Beyond Compare 4.3.5
Visual Studio includes a builtin diff viewer that is pretty nice. However, I don’t find it as useful as I do Beyond Compare. Not to mention, it doesn’t support 3-way merge. Instead of using your global git config, it forces you to change the git config file in the repo. Specifically, you need to open
git/config
in the repo and add the following:Beyond Compare Three Way Compare
Now, among other things, you can right-click files in VS and choose Compare with Unmodified to open Beyond Compare.
Text Compare Beyond Compare
Configuring Beyond Compare 3
Pretty much the only difference from above is using
bc3
instead of bc
:On Windows, it is a little more work. In addition to the above, you need to tell git the path to
bcomp.exe
:The reason I am using
BCompare.exe
for the difftool instead of bcomp.exe
is described here. When using the new --dir-diff
option of the git difftool
command:Beyond Compare 3 has a bug that is not fixed as of v3.3.12 where you need to employ this workaround. If you don’t do it,
bcomp.exe
will exit too early, and no files will be available to diff while you are viewing the directory diff.This is fixed in BC4, so you should probably just upgrade to that. Gemini 2: the duplicate finder 2 0 8.
Using It
Once you have it setup, you can easily run
Beyond Compare 4 3 Way Compare
in your working copy to show unstaged changes. If you want to see a diff of the whole directory, you can run: Bitmedic® pro antivirus 3 1.
which opens BC’s directory comparison which can’t be beat IMO. Diagrammix 2 1 0 – build better diagrams faster.
To resolve merge conflicts:
That will cycle through each merge conflict in the working copy and as long as you save the file from BC, the conflict will be marked resolved by git (hence the
mergetool.bc trustExitCode
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