>> If piyushpandey doesn't reply: I consider "fire and forget" criticism
>> rather bad habit.
>>
>> Rob Gaddi's post would also be much more useful if he told us which
>> tools he compared and _what_ he liked/disliked.
>>
>> I will look for my notices when I compared comparison tools and post
>> them here. It may take a day or two.
>
>Oliver, I'd have loved to, but somehow eternal-september was lunched
>and I couldn't get my post out before leaving for a wedding.
thanks for the reminder - I forgot to share my information about
Beyond Compare.
>At this point, I don't recall. vimdiff, a couple others, free
>stuff only though. Back when I ran Windows I tended to use WinMerge,
>and gave a shot when I switched over to using WinMerge through Wine,
>but it was flaky. Mostly, what I liked about meld is that the
>interface is clean; the learning curve is about 10 seconds.
I see.
The capabilities of Beyond Compare (BC) are comprehensive, so even
with a clean interface, you need time to learn.
I work with BC since many years, therefore my comparison will always
miss some "not so obvious" pros of other tools. That's why I'm
interested in other people's experience with these.
A good folder/file comparison tool is the swiss army knife needed
every day, for many tasks. Therefore I want a good, powerful tool.
Some features of BC (the order is no ranking):
File format filters: You can place any processing between the original
file and the display. For example, PmWiki (a CMS I'm using) encodes
line endings in page files. With a simple SED/Perl/whatever-script,
you can convert it easily to readable format. Of course, filters for
standard formats are shipped with BC or ready for download: PDF,
Office and so on. Sorting of files (before comparison) is built-in.
Include and exclude filters: Tell BC which files and directories to
process or ignore.
(S)FTP with real editing capability on remote files (Ultra Compare
uses a local copy being uploaded after editing, not so elegant).
You can edit directly in the comparison windows. This way, you can
adjust line wrapping or have even more control while merging changes.
Also great for working with configuration files! Compare the config
file with a template and adjust the settings interactively.
Archives (gz, zip...) are handled like folders, you can move files
between archives etc. Of course, you can also edit files in archives.
Processing of file metadata: Copy time stamps of identical files from
one side to the other. Handle permissions and so on.
Viewers for many file formats. For example ID3 tags in mp3 files. Of
course binary data, csv/tsv and so on.
Powerful picture comparison with stretch, zoom, pan, many difference
modes...
Scripting / batch processing.
And much more I don't recall.
The development of BC is a bit slow in the last years, but that's a
luxury problem. The upcoming version will support WebDAV, Subversion
and Dropbox. Maybe we'll get handling of file renames/moves some day.
Or IMAP support, MTP
Oliver
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Reply by Rob Gaddi●March 10, 20142014-03-10
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:23:46 +0100
Oliver Betz <OBetz@despammed.com> wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
>
> >> Thanks David, I'm aware of these pages.
> >
> >I hope I didn't come across as too sarcastic in my post - I was trying
>
> no, and no offense meant to you.
>
> If piyushpandey doesn't reply: I consider "fire and forget" criticism
> rather bad habit.
>
> Rob Gaddi's post would also be much more useful if he told us which
> tools he compared and _what_ he liked/disliked.
>
> I will look for my notices when I compared comparison tools and post
> them here. It may take a day or two.
>
> Oliver
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Oliver, I'd have loved to, but somehow eternal-september was lunched
and I couldn't get my post out before leaving for a wedding.
At this point, I don't recall. vimdiff, a couple others, free
stuff only though. Back when I ran Windows I tended to use WinMerge,
and gave a shot when I switched over to using WinMerge through Wine,
but it was flaky. Mostly, what I liked about meld is that the
interface is clean; the learning curve is about 10 seconds.
I haven't tried Beyond Compare, which looks interesting. The ability
to do binary diffs alone might be worth the price.
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Reply by Oliver Betz●March 6, 20142014-03-06
David Brown wrote:
>> Thanks David, I'm aware of these pages.
>
>I hope I didn't come across as too sarcastic in my post - I was trying
no, and no offense meant to you.
If piyushpandey doesn't reply: I consider "fire and forget" criticism
rather bad habit.
Rob Gaddi's post would also be much more useful if he told us which
tools he compared and _what_ he liked/disliked.
I will look for my notices when I compared comparison tools and post
them here. It may take a day or two.
Oliver
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I hope I didn't come across as too sarcastic in my post - I was trying
to be helpful, and had been looking at these pages myself, as this
thread had inspired me to look at alternative tools. I know you wanted
a personal opinion from piyushpandey, and perhaps others who have tried
both tools, but I can't help there.
David
>
> I wanted to get a reply from piyushpandey, who wrote that "Beyound
> Compare sucks" and why _he_ likes WinMerge more.
>
> piyushpandey obviously tried both BC and WinMerge, and he seems to
> have an opinion. I want to get him to confirm his statement with
> details, facts.
>
> Oliver
>
Thanks David, I'm aware of these pages.
I wanted to get a reply from piyushpandey, who wrote that "Beyound
Compare sucks" and why _he_ likes WinMerge more.
piyushpandey obviously tried both BC and WinMerge, and he seems to
have an opinion. I want to get him to confirm his statement with
details, facts.
Oliver
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Reply by David Brown●March 5, 20142014-03-05
On 05/03/14 07:45, Oliver Betz wrote:
> "piyushpandey" wrote:
>
>> WinMerge
>>
>> Actually it works on Windows only , but it is open source.
>>
>> and I found it very useful.
>
> would you mind explaining the pros over Beyond Compare and where BC
> "sucks"? As I wrote, I'm in the situation to decide whether to buy a
> BC license.
>
> TIA,
>
> Oliver
>
Google is your friend...
<http://www.scootersoftware.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=4776>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools>
I have never used Beyond Compare, but it looks like it has lots more
features - some of which look useful, and some of which are definitely
off-topic for a comparison tool. So my guess is that the benefit of
WinMerge (or Meld), other than the price and the convenience of not
having to track licenses (such tracking can easily cost a company more
than the license cost itself), is that these tools are clear and simple
- they do one useful job easily and efficiently. Without having tried
BC, I can't say if it is slow or hard to navigate, but that is
definitely the risk.
Reply by Oliver Betz●March 5, 20142014-03-05
"piyushpandey" wrote:
>WinMerge
>
>Actually it works on Windows only , but it is open source.
>
>and I found it very useful.
would you mind explaining the pros over Beyond Compare and where BC
"sucks"? As I wrote, I'm in the situation to decide whether to buy a
BC license.
TIA,
Oliver
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Reply by piyushpandey●March 5, 20142014-03-05
>
>Can you tell us what open source comparing software that was?
>
WinMerge
Actually it works on Windows only , but it is open source.
and I found it very useful.
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Reply by Grant Edwards●March 4, 20142014-03-04
On 2014-03-04, piyushpandey <82952@embeddedrelated> wrote:
> In my opinion the Beyond Compare does not stnad upto that mark which I
> neeeded.
>
> Yeah I tried the beyond compare but unfortunately it sucks....
>
> Instead of that another open source comparing software which I found
> useful and with which I compared the linu source of 2.6.32 original
> and a customized one, and the result was awesome after few minutes of
> wait.
Can you tell us what open source comparing software that was?
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Reply by piyushpandey●March 4, 20142014-03-04
In my opinion the Beyond Compare does not stnad upto that mark which I
neeeded.
Yeah I tried the beyond compare but unfortunately it sucks....
Instead of that another open source comparing software which I found useful
and with which I compared the linu source of 2.6.32 original and a
customized one, and the result was awesome after few minutes of wait.
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