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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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TFS missing original files on machine

I checked some files out for edit about a week ago and I want to check them in or revert my changes. Before I do that want to see what I've changed, but when I compare them, the local copy of the original file is no longer on my machine. How can I…
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Regex ignoring hyphens and double hyphens

I am trying to get beyond compare ignore a single "-" and double "--" hyphen. I am comparing two PDF documents where the original has a single hyphen and the edited copy replaced all the single hyphens with doubles. I want Beyond Compare to ignore…
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Beyond Compare to hide missing lines on diff file view

I would like to hide 'missing lines' on diff file view so that I can read code without breaks. Araxis merge and Eclipse diff viewer work this way.
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get two input files from CompareEditorInput

My requirement is to use a new external compare tool for certain type of file extensions in eclipse RCP product. For other files eclipse default compare editor should be used. In order to achieve this , I am using ASPECTJ to hook to eclipse default…
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Backup of Files Beyond Compare

How to get the backup of files before you Copy and Save? This didn't show the changes of all the files that I changed in the Source File when compared with the Destination
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Command line comparison of 2 directories using Beyond Compare or other tool

I have 2 directories which I need to compare using a command line utility. There are 2 requirements: Not to present equal files in the output - that is, I do not want even the names of the equal files to appear in the output Possibility to ignore…
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How to generate reports for every 100 files using Batch Scipt

Here's the scenario, for example I have list of files listed in pairing.txt. Now I am doing comparison for all the files listed then generating reports. Now, I want to have a feature that will enable the user how many files he want for one report.…
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How to disable upper/lowercase as unimportant discrepancy in beyond compare

Currently I am ignoring unimportant discrepancies in beyond compare. I just realized that the upper and lower case belongs as unimportant discrepancies. Is there any way we can treat this as important discrepancy?
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How set Beyond Compare ignore summary comments .net

I need that Beyond Compare 4 only compare code and not summary comments like /// /// Instancia estática del contenedor. /// public static ComponentContainer Instance { get { return…
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Compare two windows folders for differences and post them out to a new folder(Beyond compare)

I have the following scenario Folder 1 -Folder a -File1.txt -Img1.png -Folder b -File2.txt -Img2.png Folder 2 -Folder a -File1.txt (File 1 modified) -Img1.png (No change) -Folder b -File3.txt (New…
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Avoid Mercurial adding Local/Other tags to original file when merging

I am using mercurial via tortoiseHg (windows) as a source control management tool. I am used to merge using beyond a compare. Today, I have to perform a very complex merge and I just discovered a new feature (my client was updated some days ago)…
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beyond compare script for folder synchronisation

I am writing a Beyond Compare script which will sync two folders. Consider these folder structures: Folder1 ------- SubfolderA --FileA(modified) --FileB(new) SubfolderB --FileC FileD(modified) Folder2 ------- SubfolderA …
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Forcing Beyond Compare to use tabs when used as an external diff tool in Bazaar Explorer

I'm trying to use Beyond Compare as my diff tool in Bazaar Explorer. In Settings > Configuration > User Configuration > Diff I added Name: Beyond Compare Command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BComp.exe Note: No quotes. This works fine, as…
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How to find 'product_id' for the 'win_package' Ansible module?

I'm tried to automate installation of a range of programs, including 7-zip, Adobe Reader, Beyond Compare, etc, for about 30 different programs. For the first 2, I was able to find something that worked for product_id. Adobe Reader required hunting…
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Writing a regular expression to ignore SQL File names from different compilers

Hello I am working to find difference between the core code my company has produced as product and code that our client database contains. I am doing this with Beyond Compare. At some point along the way our client has used a different IDE to look…
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