WinMerge 2.7 Manual

Kimmo Varis

Dean Grimm

Laurent Ganier

Tim Gerundt

Perry Rapp

and all others who helped with this.

Revision 1.3.6

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1. About This Document

This is a manual for WinMerge 2.6.

This manual is recommended reading for experienced and new users of WinMerge 2.6. Reading this manual will help ensure the user knows about the various functions available in WinMerge, and various limitations.

Please read at least the following chapters:

  • The Quick start chapter will get you quickly started with WinMerge. After reading this chapter you will know the basic usage of WinMerge.
  • The Comparing Folders chapter explains folder comparison, ways to change the results display, and operations available in the folder comparison window.
  • The Comparing Files chapter explains the file comparison/merge window, its various panes, and methods of navigation, modes, and operations available in this window.
  • The Options and Configuration chapter helps to customize WinMerge to your needs, including things such as whitespace handling, colors, and handling text encoding.

The following chapters are suggested reading for more efficient use of WinMerge:

  • The Opening Files and Folders chapter introduces several ways (there are many!) to open files and folders to WinMerge. For example, do you know how to use the Shell Extension context menu in advanced mode?
  • The Plugins chapter introduces plugins.
  • The Filters chapter explains the use of both file filters and line filters.
  • The Commandline chapter lists commandline parameters for WinMerge (for using with other tools, or from a script).
  • The FAQ chapter contains answers to many common questions asked of developers. Please check first if your question is answered there before submitting questions to SourceForge.net.