So, this post has quickly devolved into a quick example of how to set up WinMerge as your default compare tool, as well as a semi-permanent reminder of how much I can suck. The only saving grace in this instance was the fact that my colleague hadn’t seen the blog post (I’m not even sure he’s aware that I have a blog), so I didn’t look half the idiot that I felt like. Probably a moment like the time you had that huge string concatenation method reviewed by a colleague, and their response was: This is a moment I’m sure many of us have had. I asked him to open the appropriate dialog, and saw there a single file extension: WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle. However, in classic fashion, just before this post was to be published, a colleague who’d configured WinMerge as his default compare tool complained to me about the default merge tool. winmerge Public WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows.
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