SmartSynchronize

SmartSynchronize

 

 

Comparing Directories the Smart Way.
SmartSynchronize is an advanced file and directory compare tool.

 

SmartSynchronize is a multi-platform file and directory compare tool. It allows you to compare files or perform 3-way-merges, both with the ability to edit the file contents. SmartSynchronize is optimized for comparing directory structures (for example, of software projects), and can keep them synchronized.

 

Main Features

File Compare

• comfortable editing and transfer of changes from one file to the other
• inner-line change detection

 

The File Compare is capable of detecting inner-line changes, and the compared files can be edited. Of course, the change coloring automatically updates while editing. The buttons in the center change stripe can be used to transfer entire change blocks from one file to the other.

 

You can configure the encoding used for reading and writing, whether whitespace or line numbers should be displayed, whether changes in whitespace should be ignored, or how inner-line changes should be detected. You can also export the colored view as an HTML file.

 

To support comparison of files from different operating systems, SmartSynchronize allows changing the encodings used for reading and writing the files separately for both files. SmartSynchronize writes the edited files with the remembered line separators, so it doesn't matter on what platform you edit the compared files.

 

Directory Compare

• configurable filter for customized directory scanning (inclusion and exclusion)
• configurable filter for ignored files
• easy transfer of changes from one directory structure to another
• saving configuration for later re-use ("profile")
• automatic synchronization depending on file times and previous synchronization time

 

The Directory Compare allows you to compare two directory structures of your local file system. The directory structures are displayed as one structure; files and directories that are only available in one directory structure are displayed partly. To give you a quick overview of the changes, the number of added, removed and modified lines is displayed for each file.

 

The preview pane at the lower part of the window allows convenient navigation between changes. It lets you examine the detailed changes without the need to open a separate File Compare window for each file.

 

3-Way-Merge

• ability to edit each of the three files
• easy merge from changed files to resulting files

 

The 3-Way Merge is an important extension to the File Compare. It helps you to merge two independent changes of one base file — usually the result of two people making different changes to the same file. As with the File Compare, you can edit any of the three files (provided they are editable), and the change coloring will update automatically.

 

General

• command line interface for easy invocation from other applications
• configurable font, colors and accelerators
• runs on Windows, Linux, macOS
• support for all major text file encodings

 

What SmartSynchronize is not

 

SmartSynchronize is not designed as a backup tool or for synchronizing with remote hosts, e.g. FTP. It does not know about platform-dependent file attributes like executable flags or permissions.