Beyond Compare allows you to quickly and easily compare your files and folders. By using simple, powerful commands you can focus on the differences you're interested in and ignore those you're not. You can then merge the changes, synchronize your files, and generate reports for your records. Beyond Compare for Windows 10 - A useful program for synchronizing documents, an additional function of which is to find differences in directories and files. Especially fast utility allows you to compare text documents and images. The utility can detect the latest version of the file on all connected computers. My main app - Beyond Compare, a file diff-merge utility from Scooter Software (and a really good one at that) has some spiffy rules that let you 'do the diff' on versions of an excel document. You can compare (and it seems now you have merge as well) excel as well as word files. I haven't really compared word docs yet but xls diffs work. Download AptDiff - Compare files of any format in text or binary mode and view the differences highlighted in side-by-side panes provided by this simple tool. Beyond Compare is a directory compares utility and a file compare utility wrapped in one. Synchronize files between laptop and PC, home and office, etc. Compare directory trees side-by-side with.

Beyond Compare for Windows 10 - A useful program for synchronizing documents, an additional function of which is to find differences in directories and files. Especially fast utility allows you to compare text documents and images. The utility can detect the latest version of the file on all connected computers. Allows you to synchronize individual folders. Works on mobile devices and tablets. You can free download Beyond Compare official latest version for Windows 10 in English.

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Technical information Beyond Compare

  • Software License: FreeWare
  • Languages: English (en)
  • Publisher Software: Scooter Software
  • Gadgets: Desktop PC, Ultrabook, Laptop (Acer,Lenovo, Samsung, MSI, Toshiba, ASUS, DELL, HP)
  • Operating System: Windows 10 Pro / Enterprise / Education / Home Edition / version 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903 (32/64 bit), x86
  • Beyond Compare new full version 2020
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Beyond Compare has been my favorite comparison tool for a while now. It is cross-platform and makes diffs and 3-way merges very easy to understand and visualize.

Configuring Beyond Compare 4

To get it working on any linux flavor is pretty straight forward. Run these commands from terminal:

In order to get directory diffs working (e.g. git difftool --dir-diff), I had to tweak the settings a little bit. By default, git uses symlinks to do the directory diff and BC4 will not follow those by default yielding something that looks like this:

There are a couple of ways to fix this (courtesy of StackOverflow). The approach I like is updating Beyond Compare to follow the symlinks.

In the Folder Compare, click the Rules toolbar button (referee icon). Go to the Handling tab. Check Follow symbolic links. To make this affect all new sessions, change the dropdown at the bottom of the dialog from Use for this view only to Also update session defaults before you click OK.

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On Windows, in addition to the above commands, you need to tell git the path to bcomp.exe:

You don’t need to do anything special to get directory diffs working on Windows.

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Visual Studio includes a builtin diff viewer that is pretty nice. However, I don’t find it as useful as I do Beyond Compare. Not to mention, it doesn’t support 3-way merge. Instead of using your global git config, it forces you to change the git config file in the repo. Specifically, you need to open git/config in the repo and add the following:

Now, among other things, you can right-click files in VS and choose Compare with Unmodified to open Beyond Compare.

Configuring Beyond Compare 3

Pretty much the only difference from above is using bc3 instead of bc:

On Windows, it is a little more work. In addition to the above, you need to tell git the path to bcomp.exe:

The reason I am using BCompare.exe for the difftool instead of bcomp.exe is described here. When using the new --dir-diff option of the git difftool command:

Beyond Compare 3 has a bug that is not fixed as of v3.3.12 where you need to employ this workaround. If you don’t do it, bcomp.exe will exit too early, and no files will be available to diff while you are viewing the directory diff.

This is fixed in BC4, so you should probably just upgrade to that.

Using It

Once you have it setup, you can easily run

in your working copy to show unstaged changes. If you want to see a diff of the whole directory, you can run:

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which opens BC’s directory comparison which can’t be beat IMO.

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To resolve merge conflicts:

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That will cycle through each merge conflict in the working copy and as long as you save the file from BC, the conflict will be marked resolved by git (hence the mergetool.bc trustExitCode setting).