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Technical & Scientific => Software => Topic started by: hans on March 20, 2014, 02:13:09 PM

Title: Beyond Compare for other platforms
Post by: hans on March 20, 2014, 02:13:09 PM

For those of you missing this Windows app, it's available for OS X and other platforms now.

http://www.scootersoftware.com/beta.php?zz=beta4_dl

Title: Re: Beyond Compare for other platforms
Post by: ober on March 20, 2014, 03:11:23 PM

Not sure why you would pay for that.  Filezilla does the directory comparison quite well and there are a hundred tools for comparing text files.

Title: Re: Beyond Compare for other platforms
Post by: hans on March 20, 2014, 03:35:41 PM

This one is better than the others. I've grown used to kdiff and vimdiff but this was the best of these style of tool I remember. Mostly the UI was much easier to work with.

Title: Re: Beyond Compare for other platforms
Post by: hans on March 20, 2014, 03:36:24 PM

Sort of like using IntelliJ. I wouldn't need to buy it on my own, but if the company is paying for it I'm not going to say no.

Title: Re: Beyond Compare for other platforms
Post by: Perspective on March 20, 2014, 04:30:20 PM

diff -u | less

?

J/k... We use perforce p4merge at work. But many people prefer vimdiff

Title: Re: Beyond Compare for other platforms
Post by: charlie on March 20, 2014, 05:12:49 PM

We use araxis merge instead of p4diff. Don't know if other tools would be better, but I like Araxis. I use it as a plain text editor, too, since it's faster than wordpad and doesn't muck with line endings or stuff like that.

Title: Re: Beyond Compare for other platforms
Post by: hans on March 20, 2014, 09:46:43 PM

Oh and it's not so much the diff part that is nice with this app, it's more the merge features.