tkdiff is a graphical front end to the diff program. It provides a side-by-side view of the differences between two text files, along with several innovative features such as diff bookmarks, a graphical map of differences for quick navigation, and a facility for slicing diff regions to achieve exactly the merge output desired.

Features

  • Interfaces with several SCM systems such as Subversion, Git, Mercurial and more
  • Runs on multiple platforms
  • Permits Diff-region repartitioning for EXACT merging
  • Provides statistics/reports on the breadth of changes
  • Highly configurable interface, with personalized defaults
  • Usable with multiple differencing engines, if desired
  • Supports directory-level comparison (including recursion) as well as individual file-level
  • Fully supports 3-way merging and can help resolve conflicts

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • Has been my go-to visual diff front-end for years. Enough features, and very easy to install on any Linux or Unix distribution, even if it is not available in its package manager, or you are using a system where you do not have root. So you can in a way bring tkdiff along it in your personal toolkit.
  • Absolutely the best way to visually see file differences. The reason there are so few tickets is just because it is just works.
  • Thank you very much for the free open source program!
  • Tkdiff is just so much better than any command-line rendition of diffs I have ever seen. The documentation is awesome, once you stop looking for a man page and hit the Help button in the GUI
  • diff is classical tool for UNIX-like systems. but it is textual. tkdiff is a classical GUI for diff. lightweight and effective.
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Additional Project Details

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Developers

User Interface

X Window System (X11), Win32 (MS Windows), Cocoa (MacOS X)

Programming Language

Tcl

Related Categories

Tcl Source Code Analysis Tool, Tcl Code Review Software, Tcl Diff Tools

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2002-10-16