{"id":205,"date":"2007-08-15T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/?p=205"},"modified":"2020-08-22T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:28:18","slug":"diffmerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2007\/08\/15\/diffmerge\/","title":{"rendered":"Diffmerge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcegear.com\/diffmerge\/downloads.html\">DiffMerge<\/a>&nbsp;is a tool recently made freely available from SourceGear. If you are not a programmer then you probably have no need of this, but if you do find yourself needing to compare two different versions of source files, then I recommend this tool<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/winmerge.org\/\">WinMerge<\/a>&nbsp;for a while, but the other day I needed to do the file comparison thing and I found that on my laptop, not only had I not installed WinMerge, I didn&#8217;t have an installer conveniently located in my c:\\downloads folder either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I regularly read&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/software.ericsink.com\/\">Eric Sink&#8217;s Blog<\/a>, I knew about DiffMerge, and so I gave it a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s excellent. It blows WinMerge out of the water. Recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Editor&#8217;s Note, August 2020<\/em><\/strong>: Actually, I&#8217;ve ended up using both WinMerge and DIffMerge over the years. Perhaps WinMerge more. I would like to take back what I said here &#8211; they are both excellent tools and WinMerge perhaps has the edge but DiffMerge I still found handy for quick comparisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DiffMerge&nbsp;is a tool recently made freely available from SourceGear. If you are not a programmer then you probably have no need of this, but if you do find yourself needing to compare two different versions of source files, then I recommend this tool I used&nbsp;WinMerge&nbsp;for a while, but the other day I needed to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}