Re: [Kdiff3-user] kdiff3 question re. binary diff

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 19:45, Robert Orr wrote:
> I have two directories that I diff.  In the text
> files, when there is a difference, kdiff3 acurately
> shows me the  differences.
>
> In the binary files, how does kdiff3 do the
> difference?   Does kdiff3 report the binary content as
> equal if the file sizes are equal, or does kdiff3
> actually do a byte by byte compare?

Hi,

This is an option in the directory-merge settings.
Your choices for "File Comparison Mode" are 
"Binary comparison", "Full Analysis", "Trust the modification date" and "Trust 
the size".

"Binary comparison" does the byte by byte-compare. (default)
"Trust the size" reports equality if the file sizes are equal.
"Trust the modification date" reports equality only if the date, time and size 
are equal.
"Full comparison" looks at the texts after running the preprocessors and even 
shows how many differences (and white-space differences) are there per file.

This and more is in the documentation. 
(http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/doc/dirmergeoptions.html)

Cheers,
Joachim