WinMerge

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WinMerge
Developer(s) WinMerge Development Team
Initial releaseNovember 20, 2000;24 years ago (2000-11-20)
Stable release 2.16.46 [1] (January 27, 2025;32 days ago (2025-01-27)) [±]
Repository
Written in C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Available in Multilingual
Type Data comparison
License GPL
Website winmerge.org

WinMerge is a free software tool for data comparison and merging of text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions.

Contents

WinMerge runs on Microsoft Windows.

Features

Codebases and forks

WinMerge 2011 (discontinued)
Developer(s) jtuc
Initial releaseDecember 3, 2011;13 years ago (2011-12-03)
Preview release
2011.009.217 / May 26, 2019;5 years ago (2019-05-26)
Repository bitbucket.org/jtuc/winmerge2011
Written in C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Available inMultilingual
Type Data comparison
License GPL
Website bitbucket.org/jtuc/winmerge2011
WinMerge 2011
Developer(s) datadiode
Initial releaseDecember 3, 2011;13 years ago (2011-12-03)
Preview release
0.2011.211.170 / June 5, 2021;3 years ago (2021-06-05)
Repository github.com/datadiode/winmerge2011
Written in C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Available inMultilingual
Type Data comparison
License GPL
Website github.com/datadiode/winmerge2011

For a planned development of version 3.x [2] no commits have been made to the 3.0 codebase since 2011. [3]

In 2011 a fork of the 2.x codebase titled "WinMerge 2011" was created. This new branch has continued to see active feature and bug fix development. It has also removed ATL/MFC dependencies so that WinMerge can be built using the free Visual C++ Express editions. [4]

See also

References

  1. "Release WinMerge 2.16.46 · WinMerge/winmerge".
  2. "WinMerge 3.x". wiki. bitbucket. 2011-03-10. Archived from the original on 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
  3. "commits". wiki. bitbucket. 2011-03-10. Archived from the original on 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  4. "WinMerge 2011". bitbucket. 2014-04-28. Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-28.