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This is a fork of xxdiff, a graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool. See there for full information about this program, including documentation and more instructions.
- Comparing two files, three files, or two directories (shallow and recursive);
- Horizontal diffs highlighting;
- Files can be merged interactively and resulting output visualized and saved;
- Has features to assist in performing merge reviews/policing;
- Can unmerge CVS conflicts in automatically merged file and display them as two files, to help resolve conflicts;
- Uses external diff program to compute differences: works with GNU diff, SGI diff and ClearCase's cleardiff, and any other diff whose output is similar to those;
- Fully customizable with a resource file;
- Look-and-feel similar to Rudy Wortel's/SGI xdiff, it is desktop agnostic (i.e. will work equally well with KDE or Gnome);
- Features and output that ease integration with scripts.
xxdiff was (and probably still is) tested daily in a merge reviewing/policing context by more than 50 engineers at discreet, and since this task is a significant part of their development process, many of the features are a direct result of suggestions from these people while the author was working there.
xxdiff does not support comparing files encoded with Unicode. Also, it does not support inline editing of the diffed files. If you need these features, you could try emacs or Meld (although both of these lack some of the most interesting features of xxdiff).
- User's Manual (user's manual, all features, FAQ)
- The almost secret nifty features of xxdiff
- Integrating xxdiff with scripts
- Helper Scripts for xxdiff
- CHANGES (news, recent changes, history)
- TODO (future features, wishlist)
Source code can be found in the public GitHub repository, here:
There are no releases. Pick up the source for from Github.
xxdiff comes with a bunch of wrapper Python scripts that invoke xxdiff in
creative ways. The author has been using these for a long time now and decided
for version 3.0 to clean them up and make them a little more generic so everyone
can use them. As of version 3.2, the standalone scripts have been refactored a
great deal, to share code together and to make them more stable. All this code
is now distributed with xxdiff, in an xxdiff Python package, which you can
leverage to build your own file transformation scripts around xxdiff.
See the document Helper Scripts for xxdiff for full details.
The scripts are available in the xxdiff distribution. To install them and the accompanying Python package, use the standard distutils procedure:
su - # before root cd xxdiff-3.x python setup.py install
Other tools can be found in the distribution under the tools/ directory (CVS, ClearCase, etc.).
- Reporting Bugs (bugs and feature requests)
Build dependencies are:
- Qt5, Qt6 or higher
- A C++ compiler (g++ or clang), flex and yacc
Runtime dependencies are:
- Qt5, Qt6 or higher
The Qt6 version of xxdiff was only tested on Fedora GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux.
xxdiff Copyright (C) 2001-2022 Martin Blais. All Rights Reserved.
This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License;
- Martin Blais <blais@furius.ca>
- Port to Qt4 by Alexandre Feblot <alexandre.feblot@gmail.com>
- Port to Qt5 and Windows 7 by Rene J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin@gmail.com>
- Port to Qt6 by Lior Silberman <lior3.1415+xxdiff-qt6@gmail.com>