Good diff tools under Ubuntu GNOME

Question

Could somebody give me some recommendations on diff tools on Ubuntu? Actually what I need is not just file comparison, but also directory comparison.

I think diff tools under Windows is really most convenient, especially WinMerge.

But under Ubuntu, what I can get with high efficiency is only TkDiff, but it only support file comparison?

Hope to get some help from here.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4066111/good-diff-tools-under-ubuntu-gnome

Answer 1

Meld is an actively-developed, open-source GUI-based diff utility targeted at developers.

• It is free
• It runs on Linux
• GNU License
• 40+ posts tagged as meld on Stack Overflow.
• Actively developed through February 2013 (the time of this posting)
• Allows two and three way comparison between files and folders
• Supports Subversion, Git, and Mercurial