New OS X Diff / Compare Tool
March 17th, 2008
For those of you who just long for a PC when you need to Diff some files or a directory because you miss Beyond Compare. Maybe this will bring you some comfort It has a lot (if not all) of the same great features in Beyond Compare. Even lets you script it and use it inside other apps.
Give it a try.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Thanks! I actually was looking at a BC replacement and this one looks pretty good.
March 17th, 2008 at 03:28 PM
I’ve had been using Beyond Compare for a bit (in fact, it was Thomas Burleson, who introduced it to me) on my Windows box. But then I switched to a Mac. I installed Windows in VMWare on my Mac just to be able to use Beyond Compare because there was no Mac alternative—well at least nothing that was as good as BC.
I did some research and found that File Merge, Guiffy and Araxis Merge were the three top file diff tools. Of these Araxis Merge comes the closest to all the functionality that I was used to in BC. And I’ve been using that for a bit now and have been fairly happy.
(And as a consequence, I don’t have Windows running on my Mac any more ;) )
Will try out Changes. Thanks.
March 19th, 2008 at 05:26 AM
Thanks i was looking for a script like this ;)
May 20th, 2008 at 02:11 PM
Unfortunately Changes is missing 90% of the features of Beyond Compare. Including the really core ones of merging changes in the files themselves manually.
May 26th, 2008 at 05:25 AM
DiffMerge looks really cool! I will have to try it soon..
Must See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools