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Con Confusing GUI
4 sub-windows (when you really only need 3), a lot of different colors and even more confusing result-window. No links what has changed between versions and and the result. It clearly shows it's dated or rather outdated. Great if you ever need to do a command line merge, otherwise it sucks.
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KDiff3
Recommended 4 years ago
I have been using it for more than a year now. I suggest having more patience while working with KDiff3. Understanding color differences is very difficult for me supported by the poor user experience. It does its job great than other tools and I am using Meld as a git merge tool and Kdiff3 for difftool.
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Manual code aligningPro
Context menu shortcutPro
Free and open sourcePro
Supports editing files directlyPro
Preprocessing before calculating differencesPro
Can compare directoriesPro
Supports 3 way mergesCon
Problems when files have different number of lineCon
It has big dependenciesCon
Confusing GUICon
Problems when files have different number of linesCon
Slow for large filesComments
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Pro Free and open source
KDiff3 is completely free to download and use. It's also open source released under the GPL.