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I access a linux PC remotely via VSCode on windows. I would like to be able to compare differences between two branches (one dev branch, other remote git repo). Had the files on currentBranch been on ...
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I created the below script that is triggered by a separate Python script. This will be a text comparison of 2 XML files. log normal "C:\Temp\XML_Comparisons\XML_Files_Storage\BCLog.txt" ...
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I have set up Beyond Compare 4 as the external diff tool for Mercurial. My mercurial.ini file looks like this: [extensions] extdiff = [extdiff] cmd.bc = C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 4\BCompare.exe ...
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I have SourceTree installed. And have set up Beyond Compare as Diff tool. When I click on a changed file in the Unstaged Files section, and press Ctrl+D. Which launches Beyond Compare. It shows the ...
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How can one create a section of a file thats always expected to be different? Sample jenkinsfile (basically javascript): //!beyond-comp:ignorediff //!beyond-comp:ignorediff-end Sample CMD script: ...
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Where can I find example command lines for Beyond Compare 4? I do not find them in the product help information. I want to compare two (2) files with ignore line ending differences. I do not want a ...
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I am trying to launch a program 'Beyond Compare' using the PowerShell command process=Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 4\BCompare.exe" This works perfectly fine when ...
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Should I turn off Remote Differential Compression (RDC) on Windows 11 when using diff tools like Beyond Compare to sync files beteeen two computers? Sync between Windows 10 computers is much faster ...
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Visual Studio 2019/2022 text editor supports vertical selection using Alt+mouse_drag but I cant seem to figure out if BeyondCompare supports this in its editor or not. Need to edit a bunch of lines to ...
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I try to use Beyond Compare with Sourcetree (Mac M1), but it failed, I downloaded a free 30-trial version (Current Version: 4.4.3, build 26655, released July 20, 2022), .zip was downloaded, I unzipped ...
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I have configured my Git for Windows installation to use Beyond Compare (BC) for diffs and merges from the command line. Unfortunately, when I'm working in Visual Studio 2022 and start a comparison ...
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I have a beyond compare session with several files in several folders/subfolders, I am able to select all files doing "Expand all" (with tool button) then "Select all files" (with ...
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How to Configure BC4 to "Open with... Parent Folder" in Windows Explorer for the selected file(s) in Windows 10 I use Beyond Compare (v4) many times per day, because it offers features that ...
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I have configured Beyond Compare 4 as an external tool. And now I see bizarre behavior. It works as expected for the first compare (first tab of the Beyond Compare). But when I'm opening a send tab (...
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Unable to use Diff Viewer & Merge Tool using TortoiseGit 2.13 and Beyond Compare 4.4.2 Right click on Folder --> TortoiseGit --> Settings Diff Viewer Before C:\Program Files\WinMerge\...
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With the mergetool configured for git, I have manufactured a conflict, and then run 'git mergetool', and yet no matter how its configured, it is bringing up a diff, not a merge window.
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I am using bc 4.4 to merge java files, I would like it to ignore overlapping lines like file1: Static String var1="this is example"; file2: Static String var1= "this is example"; ...
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I am using beyond compare to resolve merge conflicts and git extensions to execute git commands. My scenario is something like this. The annotation used is M for Master commits, P for parent branch ...
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It's as simple as the title states. I have 2 docx files I need to compare, and I want to see all the differences BUT punctuation marks (commas, periods, etc.), as there are too many of them and I'm ...
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Scooter Software specifies that the following settings be manually added to Git's config file to integrate Beyond Compare 4 with Visual Studio 2019.  However, how can these settings be generated from ...
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I saw in another article that BeyondCompare can't ignore line breaks (or at least couldn't at the time) so I assume this is a lost cause. However, we have a few hundred files that we've replaced tags ...
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I have an environment where I work on a Windows PC, where my workspace is on a remote linux server, which I can ssh to. I am working on a Dos Batch file to automatically compare all modified files in ...
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I'm trying to move all folders from my development environment (in a /dist folder) to the root of my production environment. Currently, when I select all the files and "copy to right", it ...
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When I am comparing two ARXMLs(can be considered as txt files) with beyond compare tool, then i can see two kind of differences: UUID lines, which will change in every code generation from MATLAB. ...
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I generated java class files using ant tool for a .wsdl file and after using clean up from Eclipse, I noticed some of the files had only moved code elements. How to enable structure comparison in ...
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I have recently switched from Sublime Text to VS Code (WIN10). I prefer VS Code now, as it' so much better, but I have something I can't figure out, and it seems crazy that there isn't a solution. ...
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BC4 is currently highlighting lines, even when they differ only by capitalization. I want to ignore those. In Session Settings, I have UN-checked the box labeled "Character Case". I have selected the "...
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my goal is to run text-report on all the files from folder A and B and get as an output html-file with all of the differences between corresponding files. The best would be, if it was just one output ...
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I have multiple files in a folder and essentially want all of them to be compared with 1 main file. How do I go on about in doing this as it's only limited to two files opened at once? Thanks.
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How to use beyond compare as the merge tool in eclipse. I am using TFVC on MacOS by eclipse integration plug-in. My merge tool edit scrpts: "/Applications/Beyond Compare.app/Contents/MacOS/bcomp" ...
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I use the beyondcompare software to compare the class code, but when the software opens the class file, it prompts a conversion error! More strange is that my local compiled class can be converted, ...
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I'm using git mergetool with beyondcompare4 for solving git merge conflicts. In my project files I often have tags for date/time/version-list that always gives me an merge conflict. I would like to ...
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I am using TortoiseGit v2.8, and my Git version is 2.18.0.windows.1 (according to git --version). I want to upgrade my Git version to the latest version (v2.1), but I am not sure if TortoiseGit will ...
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I've made a simple regex find & replace in my project which affected ~300 files, mostly in 2-5 lines per file. In addition there were some minor tweaks and manual changes to fix irregular case. ...
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I used Beyond Compare 3 for years as a merge tool. I'm familiar with how it works. I recently installed Beyond Compare 4 (Version 4.2.6) and Mercurial uses it as the visual editing tool for ...
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I'm using Git for Windows with the xltrail extension to provide a readable output when using git diff <Excel workbook>. I'm also using the graphical diff/merge tool Beyond Compare 4 Pro which ...
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I know I can use Applescript to execute a Beyond Compare 4 script with: do shell script "/usr/local/bin/bcompare @\"/Volumes/SSD/My_BeyondCompare_Script.txt\"" This script actually contains something ...
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Does anyone know of a way for Beyond Compare to support sass (.scss) files? I see they have .css support listed on their page for Additional File Formats. Currently using Beyond Compare 4 (v4.2.6) ...
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Hi All I am comparing two text files , using beyond compare V4 and it is showing differences as below snapshot. Right file does not have CollectionCash and left file does not have CollectionsCO values....
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(I am using SourceTree as my Git tool, Beyond Compare to resolve merge conflicts, and Eclipse as my Java IDE.) The conflict is complex enough that I cannot solve it in the merge tool, and will have ...
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I want to make a hot key shortcut to launch Beyond Compare 4 in CentOS7, like 'Super' + b where 'Super' is the Windows key on the keyboard. SO:a/27002058 is pretty clear on how to add a hot key. In ...
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In Beyond Compare, how do you ignore a line on both sides depending on a text on the right side? e.g. File 1 if (a==b) { c++; d--; //e--; f--; } File 2 if (a==b) { c++; //...
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I want to compare the actual revision in SVN with an older one. I can define a profile for a specific revision: But I found no way to define a subversion profile for the actual revision (when I use ...
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I've managed to activated beyond compare using command line: "C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 4\BComp.exe" /qc /iu /K "file1.c" "file2.c" & echo %errorlevel & exit this allows me to get the ...
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I am trying to setup Beyond Compare 4 (v4.2.3) as my difftool for Git (v2.15.1.windows.2) but I cannot get it to launch. I have followed the instructions they've given, but it just doesn't work! My ....
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I'm using Windows 7 (don't tease; I really have no choice in the matter) and Git for Windows. I'm trying to get Beyond Compare 4 to work as my diff and (eventually) my merge tool. I use Git from the ...
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I have install beyond compare and followed the official technic support to configure it with svn: http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs_osx However, when I run the following command: ...
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I changed the encoding of my project from gbk to UTF-8, then I use beyondcompare4(Version 4.2.3) to make sure they(two folders) are only encoding differences. however,every time I open the old file ...
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I have found this post on how to add rules to a certain or self specified file types to enable ignoring certain differences. I don't seem to understand how it works exactly and I couldn't find ...
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I'm using BeyondCompare 4 on Linux, and my goal is to generate a compare result from command line and then use this result in python or some other scripts. I have tried to use bcompare @"script.txt" ...
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