Graphical DIFF programs for linux

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I really like Araxis Merge for a graphical DIFF program for the PC  I have no idea what s available for linux  though   We re running SUSE linux on our z800 mainframe  I d be most grateful if I could get a few pointers to what programs everyone else likes

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I generally need to diff codes from subversion repositories and so far eclipse has worked really nicely for me    I use KDiff3 for other works

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I have used Meld once  which seemed very nice  and I may try more often  vimdiff works well  if you know vim well  Lastly I would mention I ve found xxdiff does a reasonable job for a quick comparison  There are many diff programs out there which do a good job

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Kompare is fine for diff  but I use dirdiff  Although it looks ugly  dirdiff can do 3-way merge - and you can get everything done inside the tool  both diff and merge

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Meld and KDiff are two of the most popular

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Diffuse is also very good  It even lets you easily adjust how lines are matched up  by defining match-points

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Emacs comes with Ediff   Here is what Ediff looks like

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Kompare is fine for diff  but I use dirdiff  Although it looks ugly  dirdiff can do 3-way merge - and you can get everything done inside the tool  both diff and merge

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There is DiffMerge from SourceGear  It s pretty good   Araxis Merge is one of the programs I miss from Windows   I wonder if it works under Wine     Might have to give it a try

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BeyondCompare has also just been released in a Linux version   Not free  but the Windows version is worth every penny - I m assuming the Linux version is the same

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I know of two graphical diff programs  Meld and KDiff3  I haven t used KDiff3  but Meld works well for me   It seems that both are in the standard package repositories for openSUSE 11 0

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If you use Vim  you can use the inbuilt diff functionality  vim -d file1 file2 takes you right into the diff screen  where you can do all sort of merge and deletes

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Diffuse is also very good  It even lets you easily adjust how lines are matched up  by defining match-points

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I use Guiffy and it works well     source  guiffy org

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Subclipse for Eclipse has an excellent graphical diff plugin if you are using SVN  subversion  source control

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I have used Meld once  which seemed very nice  and I may try more often  vimdiff works well  if you know vim well  Lastly I would mention I ve found xxdiff does a reasonable job for a quick comparison  There are many diff programs out there which do a good job

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xxdiff is lightweight if that s what you re after

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xxdiff is lightweight if that s what you re after

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