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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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File difference in representation but not value

BeyondCompare shows no difference between files (by value), but in WebStorm file is shown differently. Can't find option to compare file properties history in BeyondCompare/Subversion. What's the reason for this behavior?
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git difftool Beyond Compare 4 not diffing local with remote

I am using CYGWIN and Beyond Compare 4 Pro Edition. I have set up the following .gitconfig file: [diff] tool = bc3 [difftool "bc3"] path = c:/program files/beyond compare 4/bcomp.exe [merge] tool = bc3 [mergetool "bc3"] path =…
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Add external comparison tool in Eclipse

I have been trying to add BeyondCompare as my code compare tool in Eclipse but couldn't find a way to do so. I am using Eclipse Mars version and when I searched on Google , some solutions were there but that options are not there in updated version…
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Where is my "Configure User Tools" button in Visual Studio Source Control options?

I'm trying so set up Beyond Compare as my Visual Studio 2015 compare tool, and ever once of the first 10 Google hits tells me to click the Options->Source Control->Configure User Tools button. There is no such button under my my Source Control…
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3-way merge conflicts result in markup on my local side

A merge from my master branch into my dev branch caused a conflict. When I attempt to resolve this conflict using Beyond Compare, I notice "<<<<<<< HEAD", "=======", and ">>>>>>> (some branch in git)" are showing in my code. I believe Beyond…
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Script to generate html Beyond Compare folder differences

I've found several ways to automate folder comparison using scripts in Beyond Compare, but none that produce the pretty html report created from Session>Folder Compare Report>View in browser. Here is an example of what that looks like. I would love…
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How to display to screen a detailed report using beyond compare 3 with script?

I would like to display a detailed report to screen (not saving to output file) after using beyond compare 3 with script. Has anyone have an idea how to do achieve such behavior? Your help is welcomed :)
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Beyond Compare - how to ignore difference between 'this is a sentence' & 'this is\n a sentence'

I want to know if Beyond Compare could treat the following as unimportant difference? Left: this is a sentence Right: this is {change to another line} a sentence I thought maybe I could define something like '\n' or '\r\n' as unimportant text…
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why the first byte is like that in Beyond Compare tool?

I have two binary files and suppose they should be the same but they are not. So I use binary diff tools to look at them. But two different tools, Beyond Compare and UltraCompare, give me different result in one file at the first byte. I use HxD…
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Launch Beyond Compare(Win) for Mercurial Merge(Linux) using XServer

I've beyondcompare licence for my windows machine and I can't use that licence for linux installation. I work on linux server via putty from my windows system. I could launch linux visual merge tools like meld using X server. But I'm looking for a…
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Beyond compare 4 with git for windows: cannot open with git diff

I want to use Beyond compare 4 in order to perform merge and diff for my git repositories in Windows. I've set the following .gitconfig but when I execute git diff in the shell I obtain the textual diff inside the console instead that opening…
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In Builder, why can't Beyond Compare open the temp file associated with the buffer

I am using C++ Builder XE3. Most of the time, the Beyond Compare utility embedded in XE3 works without any problems, but it gets into a mode where it can't open the temp file associated with the buffer. It shows the "File Not Found" message, then…
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Need a UI tool to compare 2 linux folders from a windows server

Need a UI tool to compare 2 linux folders (from 2 different servers) from a third windows server. something like beyondCompare or meld that I can visually explore the folders of remote linux servers. Thanks.
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String/File comparison and highlight their differences

I want to compare two strings and highlight their exact differences, up until i was simply using StringUtils.difference , but the requirement now is to highlight the exact difference like Beyond Compare and other differencing tool. I thought of…
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Beyond Compare 3.3.10 ignores checkboxes for 'leading whitespace" and "embedded whitespace"

I would expect that Beyond Compare would ignore differences based on tabs vs spaces if in the Session Settings/Importance Tab, I check the boxes labeled Leading Whitespace and Embedded Whitespace while comparing text files using the default format. …
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