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Beyond Compare 3 is a tool used to compare files and directories.

Beyond Compare is a diff and merge tool for directories and files in different formats like text, csv, xls, data, images etc.

Beyond Compare 3 is the predecessor of Beyond Compare 4.

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Add Beyond compare to Explorer's right click

I have been using Beyond Compare 3 in my previous company and it comes in handy every time I need to compare files/folders. Right-clicking on the file would open up BC's option to compare it against another file . I recently installed BC 3 in my new…
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Ignore small difference between numbers in Beyond Compare

I have 2 files with some number values in it and I want to compare them using Beyond Compare. But if the difference between two numbers is small enough, I want Beyond Compare to ignore those differences. For example, I have the file named file1.txt…
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How to get Beyond Compare to compare data files matching columns by name, not by order

I have two scenarios: Two csv files with the same number of columns, but the column order differs. The first row of the csv is a header row and indicates correctly the column names Two csv files with some different columns, but actually most…
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Is there a file diff tool that allows for exceptions?

We currently use Beyond Compare 3.0 and I am quite pleased with it. However, it would be great if I could easily specify an exclusion for a specific one-time case. This is needed when I am doing a code review of some refactoring. For instance: Old…
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Beyond Compare Ignore .SVN Folders From Java RAD SVN Subclipse

Is there a quick way to tell Beyond Compare to ignore the .svn folders inside of my comparisons? It seems to be the only thing causing me headache showing bunch of red folders when only difference is in the .svn folders generated for my java code…
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Beyond Compare as a Diff tool with Git - How to command line switch like: /expandall

My git global config C:\Users\.gitconfig looks like: [diff] tool = bc3 [difftool "bc3"] path = C:/Program Files (x86)/Beyond Compare 3/BCompare.exe cmd = \"C:/Program Files (x86)/Beyond Compare 3/BCompare.exe\" \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" I am using…
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Resolving merge conflict with Beyond Compare (Mercurial)

I am using Mercurial and it's configured to open Beyond Compare when there is a conflict when merging. BC opens just fine and shows me the two files, but I have no idea what to do after that. Normally in BC there are arrows next to the lines…
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Comparing CSV files in Beyond Compare 3: How to ignore/filter out lines that don't exist on right i.e. only show lines with mismatched data

Am comparing two CSV files, one of which (the right) is mostly a sorted subset of the left file. Am trying to see only the lines of the files with mismatching data not lines which exist only on the left. I can do this in the folder compare, but…
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BeyondCompare comparison of XML files - Ignore specific elements during folder compare

I'm comparing folders containing XML files and wish to ignore specific nodes in the files when the directory compare is done...whether they have a value or not. File 1 value File 2 File…
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Compare HTML files with Beyond Compare while treating them as plain text files

Can someone give me the hint how to configure Beyond Compare so the compared HTML files as treated as plain text files. Currently when I compare 2 HTML files the contents are shown in a tabular view, which is not very helpful for me.
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Beyond Compare 3 Ignore Case

This should be easy but I can't find any adviceon SO or Scooter forums on how to make the folder compare be case insensitive. I'm on version 3.3.4 and I'm comparing a folder of Visual Basic files. Thanks for the help. UPDATE: I finally found it -…
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Beyond Compare Ignore Unimportant Differences in all files

I am using Beyond Compare 3.3.4. I want to compare a large number of files and ignore unimportant differences. In Session -> Session Settings -> Comparison tab, the "Requires opening files" section has a "Compare contents - Rules-based comparison".…
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How to make Beyond Compare work within Eclipse with Git?

There is clear explanation how to make BC a default tool for diff and merging for Subversion and Git when used not from within Eclipse. But what about the latter? I keep getting the following dialog: UPDATE: Added to my global .gitconfig and git…
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Why won't Mercurial merge my XML files with Beyond Compare?

We have a bunch of XML files in our Mercurial repository. When we merge changes in those files from one branch to another, Mercurial complains that some of our XML files are binary, and asks me to choose between the local and other versions of the…
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Comparing (sorted) XMLs using Beyond Compare (script) and Generate Report

We have to compare responses (XML) of two different but they are doing the same business processes. The thing is we are in a process of migrating from Mainframe Technology to Microsoft BizTalk Technology. Mainframe is serving more than 54 clients…
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