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
