KDIFF3(1)
NAME
KDiff3 -- compares two or three input files or directories
SYNOPSIS
KDiff3 [QT options] [KDE options] [KDiff3 options] [File1/base] [File2] [File3]
DESCRIPTION
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
- o compares or merges two or three text input files or directories
- o shows the differences line by line and character by character
- o provides an automatic merge-facility and
- o an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts
- o supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs
- o supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.)
- o Printing of differences
- o Manual alignment of lines
- o Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$)
OPTIONS
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...)
- -L1 alias
- Visible name replacement for first file/base file.
- -L2 alias
- Visible name replacement for second file.
- -L3 alias
- Visible name replacement for third file.
- -L, --fname alias
- Visible name replacement. May by supplied for each input.
- --cs string
- Change a setting, e. g. --cs "AutoAdvance=1".
- --confighelp
- Show a list of all settings and their values.
- --config file
- Use a different settings file.
- --author
- Show author of program.
- -v, --version
- Show version of program.
- --license
- Show license of program.
AUTHOR
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.