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Software Profile
| ID | C12-12 |
| Product | KDiff3 |
| Company | Developed by Joachim Eibl |
| Web Site | http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ |
| Software Type | Desktop |
| Costs | Under GPL License |
| Test Date | 2012-03-27 |
Testoverview
| Ranking for all tests: | 14 |
| Ranking for Source Code Test: | 14 |
| Ranking for Text Test: | 12 |
| Summary: | not useful |
Summary
KDiff3 also offers a comparison of files or folders, but when it compares folders it also only looks to see if there are files of the same name in the folder, it does not compare the files themselves. Only two files can be compared at the same time. The system accepts .java files, but only does a textual comparison of them. It can also determine if two files are binary equal.
It is able to show the identical parts, the different parts, or the entire file. In order to deal with umlauts it just deletes them. The report is printable, although often an entire paragraph is marked, even though there is only one word that is different. If multiple words are changed, the system is confused and reports nothing.
In summary, this system is not suited for university use in detecting collusion.
Screenshots
Screenshot 1: Report
Screenshot 2: Complicated Settings
Screenshot 3: Equal Files Dialog
Business Promotion
„KDiff3 is a diff and merge program that
- compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
- shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
- provides an automatic merge-facility and
- an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
- supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark „BOM“
- supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
- Printing of differences,
- Manual alignment of lines,
- Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
- and has an intuitive graphical user interface.“
Links
official website http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
