
Have you ever had the need to compare or merge two duplicate files or folders? Have you ever tried the WinMerge duplicate files utility? Share your opinions and insight in the comments section below. Once the process is through, your files or folders will once again be identical. Once you quickly scroll down through the differences in the files and you're satisfied that you want to keep all of the unique content from one file and move it to the other, just select the file you want to merge to, and choose either " Copy All to Right" or " Copy All to Left." These options automatically fly down through all differences and modify the master file so that it contains any additional content the other file may have. Naturally, any line with changed content is always included in the diff. To understand the basic concepts about differences. Ignore all whitespaces excludes all whitespace-only changes. The last two options are actually the fully automated merge. This topic describes how to use the WinMerge File Compare window to compare and merge text files. You can either use the menu options or the keyboard commands to step through each difference in the files, and then either copy the additional text to the right or the left document, depending which one you want to make your "master" document.


WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging. It features visual differencing and merging of text files, a flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap. The first nine options in this menu are actually what I would call "semi-automatic" merging. For file comparison, Quick contents compare method and Binary contents compare method have nothing to do with it.
