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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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how to browse docker image without running it?

Is there any why to browse a docker image using ssh or equivalent? My motivation is to compare two docker images using beyond compare edit: i am not interested in just listing file names, I need the content and I would like to be able compare two…
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how to ignore lf,crlf difference in beyond compare folder compare?

I have 2 same php file. one is download in win7, another is from linux. I use folder compare function in beyond compare. Beyond compare regards them as different file because one is PC, another one is UNIX. Screenshot: I would like to ignore this…
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Beyond Compare as default diff tool in Eclipse when using Mercurial?

Is there any way to make Beyond Compare 3 the default diff tool in Eclipse? I'm using the Mercurial plugin and would like to use BC3 for diffing files and handling merge conflicts. I'm only able to find solutions when it comes to CVS or SVN when…
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How to configure Beyond compare with Git command line

I have been trying to figure out how configure beyond compare to be used via command line when using Git on windows (cygwin). Based on beyond compare's documentation they ask you to just use "path" to the bcomp.exe installation and everything should…
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Can I diff more than one file at a time using subversion and Beyond Compare?

So, I've successfully figured out how to do a simple diff and a 3 way merge with command-line subversion and Beyond Compare 3 using Windows 7. Thank you, stackoverflow. However, I frequently have lots of files that I change in between commits, i.e.…
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Beyond Compare - ignore white lines

I'm using Beyond compare to Diff HTML/PHP files between a windows PC and a Linux box. I want to compare file contents. I can't figure out how to get it to ignore white space (line spaces or space at the start/end of lines). I'm sure this should be…
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Git merge with beyond compare

I've recently purchased beyond compare pro to merge code shared with git (of which I have a very limited understanding). I now have two branches, a master and a feature. I recently pulled the master from remote so that now the master is a few…
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Beyond Compare - automatically merge "conflicted" files in working copy (if possible)

I have recently merged two branches in Git. They were both in development for too long, and hence have a lot of files that were changed on both branches, so Git has marked them as "Conflicted" As soon as I open them in Beyond Compare, there are "no…
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Beyond Compare command line script for folder comparison to generate results for both folder and files inside the folder

Here is what i am trying to do: Use beyond compare command line script to compare 2 folders and i need result both at folder level and also individual file report(html) I used following command. load "D:\Reporting\Report1"…
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Compare two SVN revisions with beyond compare 4

I try to compare two revisions with the folder compare of Beyond Compare 4. But I fail to connect my SVN-folder, I get an error. When I connect to the SVN-repository with my TortoiseSVN, I'm asked for user and password and I'm connected without…
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Beyond Compare 4 failing as git difftool on OSX when already running

I've recently switched to using Beyond Compare as my git difftool/mergetool on OSX. It works fine when Beyond Compare is not already running - git difftool A B works as expected with A appearing in the left pane and B appearing in the right…
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Beyond Compare Ignore .SVN Folders From Java RAD SVN Subclipse

Is there a quick way to tell Beyond Compare to ignore the .svn folders inside of my comparisons? It seems to be the only thing causing me headache showing bunch of red folders when only difference is in the .svn folders generated for my java code…
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Using git hooks to create a diff report for every file that has changed for the current commit

I'm trying to create a git hook to create a diff report for every file that has changed between my code and the server's code. Most solutions I have seen say to use git's diff command to create the report, but I need this done for every file that…
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Beyond Compare 2 as Git Mergetool

I am trying to use beyond compare 2 with Git as a mergetool, following this example: http://www.iokom.com/drupal/node/4 The example uses beyond compare 3, so I simply substituted my directory structure, I'm not surprised it didn't work. I have…
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Git for Windows using Beyond Compare

I'm a newcomer to git and I've having difficulty configuring a visual diff/merge tool. I've configured git as per the instructions on http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs#gitwindows but when i run git difftool file.txt the diff is…
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