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About WinMerge

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WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

from the profile of Tim Gerundt (gerundt)

The code is mostly written in C++.

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