Diffuse For Linux

Diffuse is a simple, neat, free and cross-platform graphical desktop utility that can be used for comparing and merging text files. The application also integrates a diff viewer that is compatible with several popular revision control systems.

Diffuse lets users to easily and quickly compare various text files side-by-side, as well as to edit these files while they are compared. It features line-matching, highlighting of character differences, and supports UTF-8 encoded Unicode.

Line matching can be manually corrected by the user, and the following revision control systems are supported at the moment: Git, Subversion (SVN), Mercurial, Bazaar, Darcs, CVS, Monotone, SVK and RCS. Support for keyboard shortcuts is also implemented.

The program supports syntax highlighting for the C++, C#, Bourne Shell, Pascal, Octave, JSON, C Shell, R, Python, JSP, PHP, Perl, SQL, Tcl, HTML, VB.NET, Ruby, Patch, VHDL, XML, GLSL, INI, Fortran, Gettext, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and other languages.

Its GUI (Graphical User Interface) is intuitive and easy to use, as it will offer you all the tools and settings you need to get started with comparing and merging text files in no time. After opening the application, all you have to do is to open the two text files you want to compare or merge.

You can open a commit, modified files, reload files, as well as to create new 2-way, 3-way or custom file merge jobs. From the View menu you will be able to easily navigate between diffs, tabs and pane.

Taking a look under the hood of Diffuse, we can notice that it has been written in the Python programming language around the GTK+ GUI toolkit. The software is designed to work with the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

For your convenience, it is available for download as native installers for distributions of Liux supporting either of the DEB or RPM package managers. Both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms are supported at this time.