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A data comparison utility. Use this tag with questions about using Beyond Compare for programming and software development purposes.

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

It is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux operating systems.

Features for file comparison:

  • It can be configured as difftool and mergetool of version control systems, such as git.
  • It allows you to use a delimiter in files to be compared.
  • It allows you to select a column or a combination of columns as primary keys to be used for compare.
  • It also allows you to ignore certain columns from compare.
  • Differences are visually high lighted and can be exported in various format.
  • It has a wide range of plug-ins to work with other tools like eclipse.

Features for directory comparison:

  • Support of archives and ftp-connections.
  • Since Beyond Compare 4:
    • support of Dropbox and Amazon S3 directories.
    • Comparison of SVN-revisions
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BeyondCompare: Compare with actual SVN-revision

I want to compare the actual revision in SVN with an older one. I can define a profile for a specific revision: But I found no way to define a subversion profile for the actual revision (when I use it later, then it should be the actual version,…
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Git difftool with beyond compare

I am trying to compare two git branches. With git I would do git diff banch1..branch2 With the Beyond Compare tool I tried git difftool branch1..branch2 but now it looks like it's comparing the branches file by file. So I added the --dir-diff…
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git difftool directories between branches

This question contains two separated but closely related questions: First; I am attempting to compare two files which are located in different branches (THIS_BRANCH, OTHER_BRANCH) The file (file.txt) path has been moved around between the branches.…
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Exclude R commented lines on beyond compare

I've tried to follow a tutorial to add a comment for Beyond Compare but I am still unable to mark the commented lines as unimportant differences. I would like to compare R files. This is how I configured the grammar Rules. If possible I would…
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SVN diff with beyond compare 4 result in "file not found" error, Mac OS High Sierra

I have install beyond compare and followed the official technic support to configure it with svn: http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs_osx However, when I run the following command: svn diff -c 53030 . To show all changes made to the…
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Beyond compare, update the command line

After updating beyond compare, in the application folder I have the updated BeyonCompare app. However if I start the application from the terminal with bcomp file1 file2 the older, not updated version is started. How do I solve this?
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How to parse the bcompare xml report using DOM/SAX or any parser in java

In our project, we wants to generate the excel report from xml which has all differences of two folders. I tried to get the full path of a file from xml nodes, but i am confusing with node names because all parent nodes(foldercomp) have same…
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Show lines that start equally and end differently

I have 2 log files with too many differences and absolutely different line order, however, there must be some lines that start equally but end with either "SUCCESS" or "NAME NOT FOUND". How do I make BeyondCompare show me only such lines, if at all…
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Using a beyond Compare script To Get the total files and lines of code in a directory

Trying to get the current number of lines in a directory Current command: load "C:\dir" " " expand all TEXT-REPORT layout:statistics output-to:"BCREPORT.csv" It gives me a report that has"" in the upper-left corner. I might be using the wrong…
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How to set multiple column lines (grid lines) in Beyond Compare 4?

Currently I'm able to set one column line already using the Options > Tweaks > Show column line at option. How do I set multiple column lines / grid lines?
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Using Beyond Compare 3, how do I generate a report comparing two given folders and showing how many lines were changed in each files using a script

Using a .cmd files that calls a .txt file to generate a txt report. Trying to do a folder compare but that keeps coming up blank
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Git difftool --cached and Beyond Compare

I am using Windows 10. I am diffing 256 files in one folder to 256 files in another I am using the command git difftool --cached to display files in Beyond Compare. The display out put in Git Bash says: Viewing (1/256):…
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Set priority when using Beyond Compare to solve conflicts after a merge

I can see on the Beyond Compare option list for the mergetool that one can specify to favor the right or the left side with -favorright or -favorleft option. If I try to use it I get an error $git merge master [...](Actual merge with some…
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Git difftool with beyond compare returning 'fatal: cannot create directory at '': No such file or directory'

Occasionally when working on my repo I am getting this error fatal: cannot create directory at '': No such file or directory When I attempt to do a diff like below using Beyond Compare 4 'git difftool master head --dir-diff' Here is my .gitconfig…
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How add Unimportant Text in Beyond Compare 4?

I'm comparing 2 .po files. They have a lot of differences of this type: File 1: #: G:\theme\mytheme\user_dashboard_add.php:1377 File 2: #: G:\theme\mytheme\user_dashboard_add.php:1100 I need ignore that lines. Lines that begin with "#: G:" as…
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