Incubator/Projects/KDiff3

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KDiff3

Sponsor: Aleix Pol

KDiff3 is a diff and merge program that compares or merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line and character by character (!), provides an automatic merge-facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts, supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via byte-order-mark "BOM" supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.), Printing of differences, Manual alignment of lines, Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$), and has an intuitive graphical user interface. Windows-Explorer integration Diff-Ext-for-KDiff3 - shell extension included in installer (originally by Sergey Zorin: see also Diff Ext) KDE-Konqueror/Dolphin service menu plugin Simplified integration with IBM-Rational-Clearcase for Windows (Details). Read what else is special in a short abstract (PDF).

Team

Michael Reeves <[email protected]>

Manifesto Compliance Plan

Open Governance

Everyone is welcome to join.

Free Software

GPLv2 now, maybe should look into v2+?

Inclusivity

Innovation

It's a widely used tool for merging matches.

Common Ownership

The project used to be developed by someone else who wouldn't oppose. We should try to get him on the next call.

End-User Focus

It's for patches users mainly.

Candidate ready

Status Description Notes
DONE Project description KDiff3
DONE Project team Michael Reeves mostly
DONE Manifesto compliance plan All looks good for now.

Incubating

Status Description Notes
TO DO Repository and code available (in playground) in source forge now, Michael needs an account <{{{3}}}>
TO DO Mailing list available move the mailing list to KDE servers <{{{3}}}>
TO DO Website available Should go to KDE servers <{{{3}}}>
TO DO Active community Michael is trying to revive it, he's active himself <{{{3}}}>
TO DO Manifesto compliance We don't see any conflicts nowadays. <{{{3}}}>