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Beyond Compare 3 is a tool used to compare files and directories.

Beyond Compare is a diff and merge tool for directories and files in different formats like text, csv, xls, data, images etc.

Beyond Compare 3 is the predecessor of Beyond Compare 4.

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How do I make Beyond Compare ignore certain differences while comparing versions of Delphi Form Files

I use Beyond Compare (version 3.1.10) to compare different versions of Delphi Form Files, but I don't want to see differences concerning ExplicitTop, ExplicitLeft, ExplicitHeight and ExplicitWidth. Details: These lines will always begin with a…
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Setting up Beyond Compare in Visual Studio 2013 when using Git

How to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond Compare has a great answer for how to configure Visual Studio to use Beyond Compare. However, the UI for these steps has changed in Visual Studio 2013. Part of this may be due to the fact that I'm using…
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git difftool --dir-diff is not creating temp files for Beyond Compare 3 to use

I'm trying to use git's new (as of git 1.7.11) directory diff command with Beyond Compare 3 as the difftool, but the temporary files are not being created. For example: git difftool --dir-diff Beyond Compare opens a directory…
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How to make Beyond Compare ignore whitespace, but still show changes in comments

Beyond Compare has a button and menu item Ignore Unimportant Differences. When selected the diff will ignore whitespace and various formatting differences, but will also ignore changes in comments. How can I make it show comment changes, but still…
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Using Beyond Compare for Visual Diff in TortoiseHg

I am trying to use Beyond Compare for Visual Diff in TortoiseHg. eg Right click on a modified file in explorer and select Visual Diff from TortoiseHg context menu... BeyondCompare opens but only shows the 'welcome' screen and not the file I want to…
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Ignoring date column in beyond compare file comparison

I'm using BeyondCompare3 i've two files with lines containing with this kind of format. abc,bbbb,cdef,test,14:45:23.123,info,comment I want to omit the date from the comparison. I've selected Session > Session Settings > Importance Tab > Edit…
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Use BeyondCompare to see difference between files in GIT

Before I commit my changes, I want to see the difference using BeyondCompare in GIT. How can I configure BeyondCompare to see difference in my files. I looked at this link but it did not help. BeyondCompare is installed at this location in my…
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Ignore folders in solution compare with Beyond Compare

I am trying to compare two large Visual Studio 2010 solutions using Beyond Compare. These solutions have 60 projects, the only way I can find to ignore differences in the bin and obj folders of each project is by right-clicking these in the compare…
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Directory comparison of Git branches

One of my favorite workflows with svn is to use Beyond Compare's folder comparison feature to see the net differences between two branches, or a branch and the trunk. Is there a way to do this in git without having to manually create multiple clones…
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Move running merge of git to beyond compare

I made certain changes in my local branch. I didn't commit. I just indexed all changes and moved them to stash. Now I did a git pull After git pull I did git stash apply Now there are some conflicts. In eclipse I am able to see the conflicts in…
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How Beyond Compare software algorithm work?

I'm curious to know how does the algorithm of 'Beyond Compare' work? I guess there's a standard (well-known?) algorithm they used to implement the "character .vs. character" comparison. Do you know the name of this algorithm? Thank you
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How to ignore line breaks?

I have it ignoring unimportant differences, but I want the below to not show as a difference.. 3. TITLE blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 3. TITLE blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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Line-by-line comparison (ignoring order) using Beyond Compare 3 or 4

I am trying to perform a line-by-line comparison of contents in file using Beyond Compare 3 or 4. There is a caveat. The lines do not necessarily have the same order in the files. Examples below: Example 1: File 1…
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Beyond Compare - ignore certain text strings?

Is there a way to specify to ignore specific text? For example I have web files that are often the same execpt for the difference in file paths - local vs. remote paths. So in one file I will have: http://localhost/mysite.com/index.php and in the…
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How can I use Beyond Compare 3 as the diff3-cmd for svn?

I saw this posting which explained how to get BC3 working as the diff tool for Subversion... but what about using Beyond Compare 3 to do 3-way merge/compares?
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