![]() ![]() It works with many file formats, including Office files, PDF, XML, HTML, Binary, and source code files. It's my favourite OS and it's nice to still have a few developers looking out for me unlike cough Kaleidoscope cough. Araxis Merge is a complex diff and merge tool. Within OS X Utilities, choose Reinstall OS X. Prepare a clean external drive (at least 10 GB of storage). The following method allows you to download Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. Last note: I'd like to thank the developer for still supporting OS X 10.6. Install older OS X onto an external drive. difffork Install command: brew install -cask difffork Name: DiffFork Compare both folders and files, present the differences in a visual format /api/cask/difffork.json (JSON API) Cask code on GitHub Current version: 1.1.9.2 difffork has been officially discontinued upstream. The folder view is especially clean and I found it easier to transverse folder differences with this than with DiffMerge, DeltaWalker, Araxis Merge, DiffFork and CompareMerge. In the mean time, I'd highly recommend this app if you mostly compare FOLDERS. Hopefully the developer adds these features soon. It's functional but so far you can't free-form edit text (you can only copy differences left or right from what I see), it doesn't have syntax highlighting, and it only highlights whole lines of text as opposed to the particular changed words like some other apps. Where this app falls a little short however is in the text comparison. It's quick, smooth, and wonderfully small-like 3MB installed-which is impressive compared to a Java port like DeltaWalker that is 200MB installed (and clunkier). This app is also a true native Mac app which is pleasant. It also lets you both drag and browse for files and has a handy progress bar while folders are scanned. This app does it all on-the-fly from the toolbar. A true OS X look and feel is very important to me, and it has that IMHO. A few apps have even made me dig through menus to toggle simple things like hiding identical results. DIfffork is not only a very capable application, but its very intuitive and quite elegant. Other diff apps have made me dig through menus or preference panes to toggle things like whitespace or whether I'm comparing by size, file date or file contents. It's clean and well thought out, and the slew of filters it puts right on the toolbar really is excellent. You get a bunch of toolbar toggles to filter your results, two folder lists with changes in red and orphans in blue, and double-clicking a file opens the text differences in a separate new window-all like DiffMerge. ![]() The workflow of this app is most similar to DiffMerge (which does have a demo) but with a better interface. Since a lot of the comments are about the lack of a demo I'll try to write about it in a bit of detail. ![]()
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