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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 make Beyond Compare work within Eclipse with Git?

There is clear explanation how to make BC a default tool for diff and merging for Subversion and Git when used not from within Eclipse. But what about the latter? I keep getting the following dialog: UPDATE: Added to my global .gitconfig and git…
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How to use beyond compare as a external svn diff tool

I want to configure it so that svn diff filename shows the diff in beyond compare. I am on ubuntu. On a related note what is everyone using to diff and merge. BC is awesome on windows, but very ugly looking on Linux, imo.
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Compare two different directories for same file

Is there any tool, which can compare 2 directories( with different sub dirs) for same named files? Eg. DirA has subdir DirA1, DirA1 has one file named file.cpp. DirB has file.cpp. Dira->DirA1->file.cpp and DirB->file.cpp. So, iF i compare these 2…
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Pass Command Line argument to Beyond Compare

I have a list of files in a dataGridView that I would like to be able to select 2 of them (I can figure out how to check for the selectedRows count) and pass those files to Beyond Compare 3 for comparison. I looked through their Support page and I…
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BeyondCompare 3-way merge center window is not common ancestor

I'm using Beyond Compare to do a 3-way merge. I have Visual Studio 2022 and Git for Windows (git version 2.37.1.windows.1). The problem is in Beyond Compare the center window is not the common ancestor. How do I configure the center window to be…
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Beyond Compare 4 and Visual Studio 2019

I have configured Beyond Compare 4 as an external tool. And now I see bizarre behavior. It works as expected for the first compare (first tab of the Beyond Compare). But when I'm opening a send tab (starting to compare a send file without closing…
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BeyondCompare git difftool -d closes immediately without waiting for user

Note: this is similar to WebStorm git difftool -d closes immediately without waiting for user, but for Beyond Compare When I run git difftool -d with Beyond Compare set as my default difftool, git closes right away without letting Beyond Compare…
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Invoking Beyond Compare via Git Bash with diff file as output

I need some help adding arguments to the Git difftool. I have Beyond Compare (BC) configured as a diff tool for Git. If I invoke the following line, Beyond Compare will successfully open with a diffed file: git difftool What I would like to do is…
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git difftool is not working as configured in .gitconfig

I am using Beyond Compare as my external diff tool. It does not work when I configure it on my new computer in the .gitconfig as I did on other computers. If I specify the extcmd with too many quotes then it does work. One big difference between now…
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Can I use regex for 'rootalias' alignment in Unison?

Beyond Compare has a feature called "alignment override" which allows me to specify a regex rule for matching items with different names. Folders on my destination have prefixes which I want to ignore. For example, I can specify that a source folder…
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Comparing (sorted) XMLs using Beyond Compare (script) and Generate Report

We have to compare responses (XML) of two different but they are doing the same business processes. The thing is we are in a process of migrating from Mainframe Technology to Microsoft BizTalk Technology. Mainframe is serving more than 54 clients…
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windows script creates a clickable Beyond Compare report but now stopped working

I have a script that compares two folders in Beyond Compare and generates a clickable html report. This script calls a perl script and Beyond Compare to generate the report. Now after a long time working, it no longer is working. The output of the…
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Beyond Compare: compare whole function calls or xml blocks

I want to compare c and XML files with Beyond Compare. But I want to detect if there are differences within a Block to the corrosponding on the other file and if there is a difference in a block I dont want Beyond Compare to Show the difference in…
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How can you do a merge 'conflict report' in Mercurial?

How can you do a merge 'conflict report' in Mercurial? Given two conflicting revisions of a file in two heads, how can you output a report showing the parent and the two sets of revisions in each head? Basically, I would like to send a 'report' of…
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diff text documents but ignore single character differences? Set a minimum edit distance filter?

I have two versions of a large book in txt format and I'd like to compare them to find significant changes between the versions, ignoring small single character differences. There are lots of diffing tools that can ignore whitespace differences, but…
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