KDiff3 is a 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 and has an intuitive graphical user interface.
-Windows-Explorer integration Diff-Ext-for-KDiff3 -shell extension included in installer (originally by Sergey Zorin: see also Diff Ext)
-KDE-Konqueror service menu plugin
-Simplified integration with IBM-Rational-Clearcase for Windows (Details).
-Read what else is special in a short abstract (PDF).
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