Kaleidoscope by Black Pixel is a Mac app that’s dedicated to comparison—not only of text files (RTF, DOC, DOCX, and more), but also image files and the contents of folders. Comparing documents with Kaleidoscope couldn’t be easier: dragging the files that you want to compare to Kaleidoscope’s icon in the dock is enough to get started. The command line ‘diff’ tool offers a great choice for users comfortable with the Terminal. Diff allows you to easily compare two files, with the command output reporting back any differences between the inputted files. Compares two files and shows the diff. Getting Started. Install the module with: apm install compare-files. Click on the two files that are to be compared in the tree view; Invoke the command using any of the below: From Command Palette (⌘+⌂+P) invoke Compare Files: Compare; Right click on one of the selected files and choose Compare. Compare files, folders, text, pdf's, word docs and excel sheets. Includes file and folder merge features. UltraCompare for Mac. Powerful 2-way or 3-way file compare and folder compare, folder sync, Excel file compare, and a lot more. Visually inspect your differences, and exercise quick and easy merge operations.
VS Code has a very powerful diff tool. This quick post is going to teach you how to perform diffs (compare files) in VS Code.
There's two primary types of diffs you can do with VS Code.
- Compare two files in your project
- Compare git file versions
Diff from Explorer Panel
This is the quickest, easiest way to bring up the diff panels.
1. Right click the first file and 'Select for Compare'
2. Right click on the second file and 'Compare with Selected'
3. You should see the diff panel appear once you've completed these steps:
Note: you can also CTRL-select both files, right click on one, and select 'Compare Selected' to achieve the same thing:
Diff from command line
This is convenient if you want to build up muscle memory of typing out the commands into the terminal. Here's how to do it.
Paste this command into the command line with your file names.
Executing this command should bring up the diff panel, just like it did from the explorer window.
Git diff in from the Activity Bar
File Compare Tool Mac
If you would like to compare your local file changes with the latest git version of a file, click the git icon in the activity bar, then select the file that you would like to compare.
Compare Two Files On Mac
Note: you can also edit files from within the diff panels! VS Code is awesome.
Compare Two Text Files For Differences Mac Os
I hope this helped you! Diffing in VS Code is very useful for quickly seeing changes between two files. It also helps to remind yourself of the changes you've made from the master version of a file on git once in a while. VSCode diffs are a great thing to add to your developer toolbox.