Standard/Pro comparison chart

The tables below summarize the major features in the two versions ( Standard and Professional) of Ellié Computing Merge.

The major difference between the Pro version and the Standard version, is that Pro version adds 3-way related features (automatic merge being the most important).

General

Feature	Standard version	Professional version
View/Edit Text Files Open a text file window with basic edition capabilities.
Text Comparison See table below for details.
Image Comparison See table below for details
Folder Comparison See table below for details.
Options sets Options sets keep your settings in a safe place you can reuse them later easily
Templates / status documents Template and status allow you to export all the parameters to generate reports from command line or to start repeated tasks. They can also be opened again to change some settings or to work interactively in the graphical interface.
SCC / Version control Browsing and Check-out You can now browse directly into several Source Code Control repositories, listing and retrieving files from any configuration (branch, label, date...). For version control tools which have a check-out command, you can check-out files from configured mappins.
Reports in UNIX patch, XML and HTML formats Generate reports of files (text, image, binary files) and folder comparisons. A folder comparison report can optionnaly include sub-reports for text, binary files and images comparisons, as embedded reports or as independant files.
UNIX Patch Import Apply directly or preview patches to see how they alter your text files or folders.
Tabs view Open multiple files or folders comparison windows.
Drag'n'drop enabled Drag'n'drop a file or folder over the combo at the top of a view and this item gets compared automatically. Drag 2 or 3 items on the application window and a new comparison opens them for comparison instantly. Drag files and folders between panels to launch Generic copies
Unicode and MBCS Support Display, edit, compare and merge Unicode or MBCS encoded text files. Many Windows specific code-pages are also supported.
Side-by-side differences and result view Display files side-by-side with linking lines. The result merged file is displayed below.
Hideable ancestor item Show or hide the ancestor item to suit your preferences or needs.
Jump to previous/next difference or conflict Quickly navigate between differences and conflicts in a file using the toolbar or keyboard shortcuts.
Converters Customizable applications to be used to preprocess files before opening them (in both text editor and comparison views).
Powerful scripting You can script from command line or through macros (run with configurable shortcuts or menus). Scripts can do almost everything that you can do, from comparing and merging, to producing reports, editing text, synchronizing files and so much. The scripting engine is a full scripting engine, compatible with ECMAScript standard.
Integration with Configuration Management systems Define Ellié Computing Merge as the default Diff or Merge tool to use in source code control (SCC) or software configuration management (SCM) solutions.
FTP Compare at full speed with the multi-connection comparison engine, update your websites using FTP and FTP over SSL (implicit and explicit AUTH)
Command line Call Ellié Computing Merge from other applications (SCC/SCM) or use it as batch (for periodical reports generation).
Customize user interface Change the font face/size and the comparison colours for both screen display and HTML reports.
Keyboards shorcuts / Customizable shortcuts Control Ellié Computing Merge using the keyboard. You can define your own shortcuts to match your needs.
Display line endings characters Display line terminators as CR and LF characters to see differences between files produced on different operating systems.
Bookmarks Record the cursor position and return to it whenever you need. Bookmarks shape and colours are customizable. Bookmarks are available in both Text Files and Folders Comparisons.
Go to line Move to a specific line number in a document.
Go to offset Move to a specific position in a document.
Find/Replace Usual Find/Replace feature for Text files. Find files by name in Folders Comparisons. Find text or data in Binary Comparisons.
Line Numbering A hideable margin contains the line number in text files.

Text Comparison and Merging

Feature	Standard version	Professional version
Two-way comparison and merging Display inserted, removed and changed lines and blocks between two text files (source code, HTML/XML/CSS documents, web pages or another text format).
Three-way comparison and merging Merge your changes and those of your co-workers based on a common ancestor into one copy.
In-line differences Displays the differences inside a line (at word or character level).
XML Pretty printing / Compaction Greatly improves the quality of the differentiation for XML files.
Security area The security area prevents automatic merges of modification in left and right files with respect to the ancestor, if these modifications are nearer than a limit that you specify.
Ignoring particular changes Allows you to ignore particular changes (for example, lines automatically generated by an SCC tool such as $Id: marker or context lines of .po translation files). Ignored changes are skipped by the previous/next difference and hidden in the File Difference overview, showing you only the differences that you consider important.
Take ignored changes text from specified file Different options allow you to ignore changes, however these changes are not necessarily totally insignificant, this option allows you to take the ignored portions from a specified file. It proves to be particularly useful when you ignored white spaces at start of lines for example.
File overview graphs Allows very quick navigation within text files. Presents a quick overview of the number of differences between compared files.
Changes linking lines The relations between changed text blocks are displayed as graphical links between the two involved versions.
Synchronized scrolling Vertical scrolling of any text file keeps the matching blocks in front of each other.
Save/Restore comparison status Save a comparison at any time and reload it later, preserving all your work.
Conflict Highlighting Conflicting blocks of text in the files are flagged with a conflict marker for manual resolution. You can navigate between conflicts (all or only unresolved) using toolbar icons and shortcut keys.
Conflict Markers If displayed, the margin shows a customizable marker in front of conflicts.
Ignore whitespaces options Whitespace differences can be considered as unimportant. Ellié Computing Merge can ignore leading, embedded and trailing whitespaces.
Ignore Line Endings option Differences in line ending characters can be considered as unimportant. Allows you to compare and merge files produced on different operating systems.
Compare clipboard content Fill easily the views from the text copied into the clipboard

Image Comparison

Feature	Standard version	Professional version
Many file formats Open GIF, BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF, XPM... natively and use converters to view many other file formats
Parameterable differentiation Choose between several differentiation algorithms
Zooming, stretching, alignmentWhen the images are not of the same size or one is a detail of the other, align and stretch it easily with the tools or right click menu
Several measures Compute PSNR and MSE, in addition to exact/similar and different pixels count
Compare clipboard content Fill easily the views from the text copied into the clipboard

Binary Comparison

Feature	Standard version	Professional version
Two-way comparison Display inserted, removed and changed blocks between two binary files.
Three-way comparison Check any difference between two files based on a common ancestor.
Ignoring particular changes Allows you to define static or dynamic fields in the binary file formats and ignore some of them (for example, timestamps). Ignored changes are skipped by the previous/next difference, showing you only the differences that you consider important.
Folding Compress large blocks of data.
Synchronized scrolling Vertical scrolling of any binary file keeps the matching blocks in front of each other.
Save/Restore comparison status Save a comparison at any time and reload it later, preserving all your work.
Bookmarks If displayed, the margin shows a customizable marker. In Binary documents, bookmarks are linked to a specific position.
Compare clipboard content Fill easily the views from the data copied into the clipboard

Folder Comparison and Merging

Feature	Standard version	Professional version
Two-way comparison and merging Display file insertions, removals and changes between two folder hierarchies. You can compare branches of source code, entire web sites or other sets of text and binary files.
Three-way comparison and merging Merge changes between two folder hierarchies and a common ancestor. Use it to merge branches in a source code control (SCC) or software configuration management (SCM) solutions.
Integrated file comparison Compare and merge differences between files from the folder hierarchies comparison view.
Filters Define critera to include or not files or folders in the Folder Comparison. Excluded files are not displayed unless "hidden files" are wished.
Mix Unicode files with native encoding files Ellié Computing Merge can be used to compare folders with mixed encoding thanks to its Unicode auto-detection algorithm (even without signatures).
Compare folders of different encodings Specify one default encoding per folder hierarchy, enable or disable Unicode auto-detection
Right click summary With a single right-click you get a comparison summary for the selected items
Multi-threaded background comparisons Ellié Computing Merge can compare documents in background and multi-threaded! Take advantage of new double cores or multi-processor systems. You can stop the comparisons at any time and restart them later if you need your CPU for something more urgent. Ellié Computing Merge gives a slightly lower priority to these comparison to give you the best user experience.
Drag'n'drop / Cut'n'paste copy You can drag'n'drop or cut'n'paste files and folders from a panel to another and easily launch the Generic Copy dialog box
Generic / Filtered copy The Generic copy box allows you to copy/mirror easily a subset of the files from a side to another. A comprehensive interface allows to simulate what would happen. You can permit many different actions by type and realize exactly the wanted task (e.g. Overwrite older, Overwrite newer, Create new files, Create new folders...)
Rename You can rename items in-place or in the Item properties box
Item properties box View item properties (size, last update...).
Time adjustments Use time adjustments to cope with servers which do handle time zones by themselves
Free Compare Launches comparisons between any 2 files or folders or 3 files or folders with Pro version

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