kdiff3 - compares two or three input files or directories

kdiff3 [QT options] [KDE options] [kdiff3 options] [File1] [File2] [File3]

This manual page documents briefly the kdiff3 tool.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. For comprehensive help, please see khelpcenter help:/kdiff3.

kdiff3 is a program that

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compares two or three input files

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shows the differences line by line and character by character

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provides an automatic merge-facility and

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an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts

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and has an intuitive graphical user interface

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and allows directory comparison and merge.

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a full summary of options, run kdiff3 --help.

-m, --merge

Merge the input.

-b, --base file

Explicit base file. For compatibility with certain tools.

-o, --output file

Output file. Implies -m. E.g.: -o newfile.txt

--out file

Output file, again. (For compatibility with certain tools.)

--auto

No GUI if all conflicts are auto-solvable. (Needs -o file)

--qall

Don't solve conflicts automatically. (For compatibility...)

--fname alias

Visible name replacement. Supply this once for every input.

-v, --version

Show version of program.

This manual page was written by Eike Sauer <eikes@cs.tu-berlin.de> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 (or, at your option, any later version published by the Free Software Foundation).

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.