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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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Beyond Compare - ignore certain text strings?

Is there a way to specify to ignore specific text? For example I have web files that are often the same execpt for the difference in file paths - local vs. remote paths. So in one file I will have: http://localhost/mysite.com/index.php and in the…
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How to link external diff tool(beyond compare) in source tree?

I am using Source tree client for Git on windows 7. I have used beyond compare with tortoisehg client for mercurial and I like to use Beyond compare itself as diff too in SourceTree too. I set the diff tool to beyond compare in Tools -> Options but…
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Sourcetree does not launch Beyond compare external merge tool

Suddenly, when I try to launch "External merge tool" from Sourcetree, the tool does not appear. I say suddenly, because it worked last time I tried. The dialog remains forever: Eventually I found this process related to the visual merge (dunno…
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How to configure Beyond Compare 3 for Eclipse conflict resolution?

What is the correct parameters to get Beyond Compare 3 working with Eclipse/Subclipse conflict resolution? In Preferences > Team > SVN > Diff/Merge there's the option to specify an external program to resolve conflicts. The default parameters…
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mergetool from .gitconfig being ignored?

git config --global mergetool.bc3 "\"c:/program files (x86)/beyond compare 3/bcomp.exe\" \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" \"$BASE\" \"$MERGED\"" git mergetool /usr/lib/git-core/git-mergetool--lib: line 116: bcompare: command not found This is extremely odd,…
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Beyond Compare 3 editing disabled

With BC2, when i click the Show differences... option in SourceGear Vault. It allow me to copy from the repository to the working version and save but I can't do this with BC3. It doesn't allow copying to the otherside (right) and have the editing…
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Beyond compare remote with local file

I want to compare two text files one on remote the other local. With diff I would do that with ssh user@login "cat myfile.txt" | diff - local.txt Is there a way to perform the same comparison using Beyond Compare? If I do ssh user@login "cat…
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Git difftool submodules

I'm thinking about using submodules in a way that they aren't really meant for but my goal is to streamline some things for the devs. I've got a project that is basically made up of only submodules - 4 of them. It is important that they are…
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How to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond compare for TFS GIT?

Is there a way to use Beyond Compare as the default comparison tool when doing "Compare with Unmodified" in Visual Studio 2015/2017 when using Git? I don't find the "Configure User tools" option as described in How to configure Visual Studio to…
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How to use visual merging tools?

I can't get my head around KDiff3 or Beyond Compare in the merge mode. Is there any tutorial to this feature?
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git difftool does not launch Beyond Compare

I am struggling with git making run Beyond Compare as my difftool. I'm using "Git For Windows", Windows 7 32 bits and Beyond Compare 4 $ git --version git version 1.9.5.msysgit.1 $ git config --list [diff] tool = bc3 [difftool "bc3"] path =…
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Beyond Compare folder compare shows files that have no difference

I am using Beyond Compare 4 (64-bit Edition, Version 4.1.5, build 21031). This is a new application to me. I want to compare two folders (current source code tree versus previous release). More than looking at individual differences, I want to know…
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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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Beyond Compare 2 ignore case

How can you get Beyond Compare 2 to ignore differences in letters case? E.g. "Foo Bar" and "fOo BAR" would be considered the same.
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git with Beyond Compare (4) on WSL2 Windows 11 not opening the repo version

Trying to get git and Beyond Compare to place nicely together on WSL. Here is the output from git config --list: diff.tool=bc3 difftool.prompt=false difftool.bc3.path=/mnt/c/Program Files/Beyond Compare…
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