James Stephens

February 23, 2006

A Graphical Tool For File, Directory, CVS And Subversion Diff Viewing

Filed under: Linux — James Stephens @ 9:00 am

Fldiff is a useful and simple to use graphical differencing program that supports file, directory, CVS, and Subversion diff viewing.

Simply run fldiff with two filenames to show the differences between them e.g.


Screenshot of fldiff

(click image to enlarge)

The yellow represents lines that are different and the particular regions of those lines that differ are shown in bright yellow.

An RPM package is provided for Fedora Core 3 as well as a .tar.gz file for compilation on other platforms (including Cygwin under Windows) using configure, make.

I don’t know why this package isn’t part of the Fedora core distribution. It should be.

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