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Does WinMerge run on older Windows versions? |
Beginning with Version 2.14, WinMerge ended support for older 32-bit Windows systems, including Windows 9x, ME, and NT4. In addition, WinMerge version 2.16 does not support Windows 2000. Previously, WinMerge provided an ANSI (8-bit) executable,
WinMerge developed the Unicode-enabled
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I want to compare folders, but I cannot select a folder in the Browse dialog. |
Browse in the folder contents to the folder you want to compare.
Do not select any of the files or subfolders, just click
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Do you have any plans to support other operating systems besides Windows? |
There are currently no plans for cross-platform support but you can try the unofficial version WinMerge 2011 by Jochen Neubeck. This version should work with Wine also under Linux. |
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Providing an integration with CVS is of questionable value because there already are so many good CVS clients. However, WinMerge does provide an integration with the diff function of one of those clients, TortoiseCVS (as described in Using WinMerge with other tools). Also, WinMerge can resolve conflict files (see Resolving conflict files). |
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MRU is an abbreviation for “Most Recently Used”, and refers to the history lists in the Select Files or Folders dialog. The list contain the last twenty paths used on each side. |
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OpenOffice files are archives. To be able to open them in WinMerge, you have to configure archive support:
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Why do large files sometimes show up as different in the Folder Compare window, but identical in the File Compare window? |
This is because WinMerge always uses the Quick Contents file compare method for large files. This method enables WinMerge to compare large files more efficiently. To test if this is causing the behavior you're seeing, you can try raising the Quick Contents threshold for large files. See the discussion of this method in Starting a folder compare operation to learn how. |
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Is there way to create patch files from the command line? |
No. It might be added in later versions. Until then, you can use
the Win32 port of |
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Can patches be applied using WinMerge? |
You can apply patches using the experimental plugin ApplyPatch.sct. The extensions of patches supported by the plugin are .diff or .patch. |