


With WinMerge, I do use the filters to ignore certain folders.

It seems WinMerge might be slow because it's trying to analyze text files to find out which lines are different. Every so often, I run a script that WinMerges the various folders and I check that there are no unexpected diffs. I am using RoboCopy to copy files to an external hard drive. WinMerge does what I need, but it is slow. It just needs to say if files are identical or not - no text comparison. VSCode diffs are a great thing to add to your developer toolbox.Is there a tool like WinMerge that can diff two folders but doesn't try to analyse the actual file differences. It also helps to remind yourself of the changes you've made from the master version of a file on git once in a while. I hope this helped you! Diffing in VS Code is very useful for quickly seeing changes between two files. Note: you can also edit files from within the diff panels! VS Code is awesome. If you would like to compare your local file changes with the latest git version of a file, click the git icon in the activity bar, then select the file that you would like to compare. Paste this command into the command line with your file names.Įxecuting this command should bring up the diff panel, just like it did from the explorer window. This is convenient if you want to build up muscle memory of typing out the commands into the terminal.

Note: you can also CTRL-select both files, right click on one, and select "Compare Selected" to achieve the same thing: You should see the diff panel appear once you've completed these steps: Right click on the second file and "Compare with Selected"ģ. Right click the first file and "Select for Compare"Ģ. This is the quickest, easiest way to bring up the diff panels. There's two primary types of diffs you can do with VS Code.
