The KDiff3 Handbook
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# The KDiff3 Handbook
KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which compares and merges two or three text input files or directories,shows the differences line by line and character by character(!),provides an automatic merge-facility,has an editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,provides networktransparency via TDEIO,has options to highlight or hide changes in white-space or comments,supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other file encodings,prints differences,supports version control keyword and history merging. This document describes KDiff3-version 0.9.92.
Keywords: KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, tdeio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments

Joachim Eibl `<joachim.eibl at gmx.de>`

Revision 0.9.92 (2007-31-03)

Copyright © 2002-2007 Joachim Eibl

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which

- compares and merges two or three text input files or directories,

- shows the differences line by line and character by character(!),

- provides an automatic merge-facility,

- has an editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,

- provides networktransparency via TDEIO,

- has options to highlight or hide changes in white-space or comments,

- supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other file encodings,

- prints differences,

- supports version control keyword and history merging.

This document describes KDiff3-version 0.9.92.

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