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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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Resolving merge conflict with Beyond Compare (Mercurial)

I am using Mercurial and it's configured to open Beyond Compare when there is a conflict when merging. BC opens just fine and shows me the two files, but I have no idea what to do after that. Normally in BC there are arrows next to the lines…
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How to exit git difftool when using with Beyond Compare?

I have configured Beyond Compare as difftool. When I run $ git difftool, it opens all the diff files in BC, but sequentially i.e. the first diff file opens, which I have to close so that the next one opens, and so on. When the file count is too…
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Is it possible to use Beyond Compare to identify columns that exist in one Excel sheet but not another?

I have two Excel sheets and one sheet has more columns than the other sheet and I need to identify those columns that are not present in both sheets. I've tried using Beyond Compare tool but cannot figure out how to identify columns not present in…
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Using Beyond Compare with Bitbucket extension for visual studio to see pull requests?

I'm using Visual studio 2017 professional with beyond compare as a diff/merge tool for our git (bitbucket) source code. As you can see, BC is invoked I'm trying to compare with history : I also wanted to see pull requests so I've installed the…
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Beyond Compare 4 shows "Editing disabled" when resolving a merge from Mercurial

I used Beyond Compare 3 for years as a merge tool. I'm familiar with how it works. I recently installed Beyond Compare 4 (Version 4.2.6) and Mercurial uses it as the visual editing tool for resolving merge conflicts when this command is entered: hg…
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Getting Beyond Compare to Match Similar Lines Properly

I am using Beyond Compare 4.1.6 to diff text configuration files. There is one configuration parameter per line, and each line is formatted as follows: := I would like to configure Beyond Compare such that it will align only lines when the : portion…
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How to use BeyondCompare from git mergetool in cygwin?

How to use BeyondCompare from "git mergetool" in cygwin?
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How to use Beyond Compare 3 with Atom and difftool command?

I am using Atom with the package: git-plus. I've configured BC as the diff tool like so (from the official BC site): And indeed, in the windows command prompt, when typing "git difftool" the BC gui opens fine. But inside Atom, when pressing…
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Comparing CSV files in Beyond Compare 3: How to ignore/filter out lines that don't exist on right i.e. only show lines with mismatched data

Am comparing two CSV files, one of which (the right) is mostly a sorted subset of the left file. Am trying to see only the lines of the files with mismatching data not lines which exist only on the left. I can do this in the folder compare, but…
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BeyondCompare comparison of XML files - Ignore specific elements during folder compare

I'm comparing folders containing XML files and wish to ignore specific nodes in the files when the directory compare is done...whether they have a value or not. File 1 value File 2 File…
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Beyond compare with Mercurial: How to get refresh & save to work properly?

I am trying to configure beyondcompare with mercurial to setup several workflows. Currently I can do this: Launch hg bcompare or hg bcompare --rev Make some changes to the file on the right Save in beyond compare Close beyond…
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Compare HTML files with Beyond Compare while treating them as plain text files

Can someone give me the hint how to configure Beyond Compare so the compared HTML files as treated as plain text files. Currently when I compare 2 HTML files the contents are shown in a tabular view, which is not very helpful for me.
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How can I import a directory structure into SVN, keeping the file and folder modifed dates the same?

I've got a large source tree (> 2 GB, WINCE build tree) that I would like to start managing with Subversion. Up to this point, 'versioning' has been managed through keeping multiple copies of the tree, and using Beyond Compare to find…
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Setting up Beyond Compare 4 in Visual Studio 2013 when using Git

I'm trying to figure out how to configure BEYOND COMPARE 4 to use with Visual Studio 2013 with GIT. NO matter how I seem to configure this it wants to use the VS2013 internal diff/merge tools. Beyond Compare Install Directory C:\Program Files…
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How to save compare reports generated by beyond compare programatically

I have a piece of code where I am comparing two files using Beyond compare . string s = @""C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 2\BC2.exe""; Process.Start(s, @"c:\temp\File1.txt c:\temp\File2.txt" ); Now i want to save the Compare report with a…
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