• NAME
• REGISTRATION DESCRIPTION
• EXECUTION
• TODO
• HELP
• ABOUT
• AKNOWLEGEMENT
• PROUD MEMBER

NAME

JDirDiff - GUI tool that compares two directories and merges differences

New Release from 2004-06-15: version 0.67 11Manik 10Zots

New Release from 2004-03-30: version 0.57 12Oc 18Cumku

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jdirdiff

REGISTRATION DESCRIPTION

JDirDiff is a GUI tool that compares two directories and merges differences.

JDirDiff is a 99% pure java utility, uses swing for front end; uses Xerces for xml parsing (jdirdiffrc: resource configuration file for personal options). It is platform independent as java is.

JDirDiff is not a substitute for cvs, rsync, neither for diff. It is very common that computer users have many similar copies of archives, with directory structure tree almost equal. JDirDiff displays both similar trees and shows every difference: identical files, different files, missing files.

Features:

• Menu Bar
  
• Tool Bar
  
• Tips of the day
  
• Open of two directories dialog box
  
• Translations (I18n)
  
• Resource configuration file (jdirdiffrc)
  
• Customize the actions to perform on each pair of files like:
  

    gvim -d file_in_treeA file_in_treeB

which launches The Editor Vim http://vim.org in diff mode.

JDirDiff is related to ganttproject http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net: JDirDiff copied many features from ganttproject (not bugs hope)

EXECUTION

The requirements is Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.4.2_04 also works with Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.5.0 Beta 2 (it looks nicer in jre 1.5) http://java.sun.com/j2se/index.jsp

java -jar jdirdiff-$release.jar dir1 dir2

TODO

There is a lot of work to do. Here is the wish list:

• Edit Settings dialog Box.
  
Whit this dialog box, you can configure jdirdiff options, like include/exclude file name patterns, shortcuts, context menu commands (many features included in xml rc file .jdirdiffrc).
• Icons.
  
JDirDiff needs its own icons. Someone with graphical manipulation skills?

HELP

JDirDiff needs your help.

In order to achieve the goals in TODO, JDirDiff needs that you become a developer:

• Old Way
  
Download source code at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jdirdiff/jdirdiff-0.4.zip. (it takes time to copy the file to all the mirrors, try unc).

Then send me your patch ( vcm@users.sf.net ).

• Use CVS
  
First of all, register at sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/account/register.php; then ask me for adding you to the JDirDiff team vcm@users.sf.net.

In Linux http://linux.org, you should do:

    % export CVSROOT=:ext:yourusername@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/jdirdiff
    % cvs checkout jdirdiff

more details in https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033&group_id=1

• Use SVN
  
Nowadays subversion is getting so much popularity, it is supposed to be a replacement for CVS, lets give svn a try at tigris.org; just wait a little more.

ABOUT

Al Vega

AKNOWLEGEMENT

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation http://www.apache.org. These parts are subject to the Apache Software License.

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