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Highest Rated
Excellent tool. Runs in place from download. I was ready to scream when I tried to compare my web site with the GIT repository of the site. Then I saw the pre-defined filter "Exclude Source Control". That did it. Clean compare on 4000 files in 66 folders. Two config file settings had changed over the years and it was easy to select them, edit the masters, and get them checked back in. Beautiful user interface. Thanks guys.
Lowest Rated
This programis miserably counterintuitive. And on top of that, it will not function as described in the Help File. It will only allow me to browse to a folder if and only if the folder resides in another folder, and NO OTHER FILES are in there with it. If there are any files along with the folder I am trying to select, it just opens that folder and tries to force me to select a sub-file instead.
I could not get it to show that there were 2 completely different files in the two folders I was comparing. It showed nothing at all, when I knew for sure one folder had a file the other folder lacked. It did not matter how I adjusted all the settings to show the differences, etc. This program is worthless to me, so I will have to find something else.
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I've been using WinMerge for likely 20+ years now, close to its original release. Just a terrific product and extremely fast and stable. I've never experienced a single bug with this app which is extremely rare for any product, and I've been a heavy-duty user since day 1 (a very experienced C++ developer myself). Flashier apps may exist by now with more bells and whistles (though WinMerge already offers a lot), but if you're looking for a basic side-by-side comparison product, it does a great job (and yes, you can plug it in 3rd-party apps like Visual Studio for instance to do Git comparisons). I don't care how old it is now, newer isn't always better (often less stable in fact), and WinMerge will be my go-to app for a long time to come yet. Strongly recommend it.
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Turn on word wrapping. Then it is perfect! An improvement over linux diff and Windiff. Nice color highlighting of paragraph where difference occurs and what the differences are.
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WinMerge is a must have tool, and one of the best projects on SourceForge
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Invaluable tool for comparing directory structures quickly and efficiently.
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Good app!
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WinMerge is absolutely indispensible – not only for developers. If you are just a regular computer user and realize that your colleagues have created several copies of a file (or even a whole folder), WinMerge helps you quickly find the differences (if any).
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I am a utilitiophile. And I have a core group that I keep close at hand because they just work, they perform specific tasks and they make my life better. I can go on about how much this has improved since Gen-Zero, but all that is unnecessary. I find it invaluable.
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Thank you very much for the free open source program!
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I have been using Notepad++ for years along with certain plugins I thought I could not do without. I had been using the compare plugin for Notepad++ and have always found it clunky and hard to configure to where it makes any sense at all. Someone suggested WinMerge and all I can say is WOW. This is exactly what the Notepad++ Compare plugin should be. From this point forward I will be using WinMerge when it comes to comparing large documents. I send out weekly price sheets for refurbished systems and these documents change from week to week. WinMerge has made updating the latest pricelist easy as can be, whereas before it was a HUGE problem using Notepad++ compare. I went from 30-40 minutes making changes to less than 5 minutes making changes. That's a timesaver and believe it or not time really is money.
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Does everything as advertised. Download it, run it, do what you need! No mess, no fuss. I'm so grateful for NO pain-in-the-arse-ware I've made a dontation. It wasn't much but words weren't enough to describe my delight at the absence of adverts, sneeky signup lists, nag-ware, etc Cheers.
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great app - it just does everything i want of it - thanks
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I don't use it often, but when I do it is great!
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using it daily for software development, mainly to compare differences in folders recursively. love the customizability, the simplicity, the filtering, the CLI support
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I love using WinMerge to compare difference for files, especially when programming or resolving merge conflicts.
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very useful tool! Extract and use it directly. Good.
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Useful for me, thanks.
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I never had to try support, so there should be a NA choice for each row (this is for sourceforge, not the program under review).
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This is very advanced and powerful app! Thank you dev you are the king!
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I use this soft since many years. It is my swiss army knife !
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Мне нравится эта программа
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A wonderful tool. Thank you very much for that and that it is still evolving.
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I was needed to compare raw text, and WinMerge help me with this task.
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just what i needed to compare my photo files with the archived versions over 30,000 files to check. Downloaded and installed in less than a minute and then it went to work. If a 60 year old like me can figure this than anyone can! Great Job
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Gracias, me encanta muy buen programa para comparar archivos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPgtZm-oxhM