Tortoise SVN: compare two directories (instead of files or revisions)

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fishbone picture fishbone · Mar 18, 2011 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

You can compare two revisions or files with Tortoise SVN. Is there also a way to compare two directories?

I have two directories containing source code. 90 percent of the code is identical. Now I'm going to store identical code in a plugin since duplicate code is bad. Tortoise Diff would be perfect for this if there was a way to compare two directories.

How can I achieve this? If it isn't possible with Tortoise, do you have other ideas / tools in mind for this purpose?

Answer

bhinks picture bhinks · Mar 18, 2011

Not sure about Tortoise, but if you're running Windows I recommend WinMerge.

http://winmerge.org/

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