Incubator/Projects/KDiff3

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+?

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.

Sponsor Checklists

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	<{{{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}}}>