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<html><head><title>Options for Comparing and Merging Directories</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="help:/common/kde-default.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><meta name="keywords" content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><link rel="up" href="dirmerge.html" title="Chapter 3. Directory Comparison and Merge with KDiff3"><link rel="prev" href="dothemerge.html" title="Doing A Directory Merge"><link rel="next" href="other.html" title="Other Functions in Directory Merge Window"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div style="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><div style="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><img src="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png" style="margin: 0px" alt=""></div><div style="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">Options for Comparing and Merging Directories</div></div><div style="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><a accesskey="p" href="dothemerge.html">Prev</a></div><div style="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><a accesskey="n" href="other.html">Next</a></div><div class="navCenter">Directory Comparison and Merge with <span class="application">KDiff3</span></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="dirmergeoptions"></a>Options for Comparing and Merging Directories</h2></div></div></div><p>
The <span class="application">KDiff3</span>-preferences (menu "Settings"->"Configure <span class="application">KDiff3</span>") has
a section called "Directory Merge" with these options:
</p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Recursive Directories:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> Select whether to search directories
recursively.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>File Pattern(s):</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> Only files that match any pattern here will
be put in the tree. More than one pattern may be specified here by using
the semicolon ";" as separator. Valid wildcards: '*' and '?'. (e.g. "*.cpp;*.h").
Default is "*". This pattern is not used on directories.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>File Anti-Pattern(s):</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> Files that match this pattern
will be excluded from the tree. More than one pattern may be specified here
via using the semicolon ";" as separator. Valid wildcards: '*' and '?'. Default
is "*.orig;*.o;*.obj".</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Directory Anti-Pattern(s):</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> Directories that match this pattern
will be excluded from the tree. More than one pattern may be specified here
via using the semicolon ";" as separator. Valid wildcards: '*' and '?'. Default
is "CVS;deps;.svn".</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Use CVS-Ignore:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p>
Ignore files and directories that would also be ignored by CVS.
Many automatically generated files are ignored by CVS.
The big advantage is that this can be directory specific via a local ".cvsignore"-file.
(See <a href="info:/cvs/cvsignore" target="_top">info:/cvs/cvsignore</a>.)</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Find Hidden Files and Directories:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> On some file systems files
have an "Hidden"-attribute. On other systems a filename starting with a dot
"." causes it to be hidden. This option allows you to decide whether to
include these files in the tree or not. Default is on.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Follow File Links:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> For links to files: When disabled, then
the symbolic links are compared. When enabled, then the files behind the
links are compared. Default is off.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Follow Directory Links:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> For links to directories: When disabled,
then the symbolic links will be compared. When enabled then the link will
be treated like a directory and it will be scanned recursively. (Note that
the program doesn't check if the link is "recursive". So for example a directory
that contains a link to the directory would cause an infinite loop, and after
some time when the stack overflows or all memory is used up, crash the program.)
Default is off.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Case Sensitive Filename Comparison:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p>
Default is false on Windows, true for other operating systems.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>File Comparison Mode:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p>
<div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Binary Comparison:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p>
This is the default file comparison mode.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Full Analysis:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p>
Do a full analysis of each file and show the statistics information columns.
(Number of solved, unsolved, nonwhite and white conflicts.)
The full analysis is slower than a simple binary analysis, and much
slower when used on files that don't contain text.
(Specify the appropriate file-antipatterns.)
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Trust the modification date:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> If you compare big directories
over a slow network, it might be faster to compare the modification dates
and file length alone. But this speed improvement comes with the price of
a little uncertainty. Use this option with care. Default is off.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Trust the size:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p>
Similar to trusting the modification date. No real comparison happens. Two
files are considered equal if their file-sizes are equal. This is useful
when the file-copy operation didn't preserve the modification date.
Use this option with care. Default is off.</p></dd></dl></div></p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Synchronize Directories:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> Activates "Sync-Mode" when two directories
are compared and no explicit destination directory was specified. In this
mode the proposed operations will be chosen so that both source directories
are equal afterwards. Also the merge result will be written to both directories.
Default is off.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Copy newer instead of merging:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> Instead of merging the proposed
operation will copy the newer source if changes happened. (Considered unsafe,
because it implies that you know, that the other file hasn't been edited
too. Check to make sure in every case.) Default is off.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Backup files:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> If a file or complete directory is replaced
by another or is deleted then the original version will be renamed with an
".orig" extension. If an old backup file with ".orig" extension already exists
then this will be deleted without backup. This also affects the normal merging
of single files, not only in directory-merge mode. Default is on.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div style="background-color: #white; color: black; margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><a accesskey="p" href="dothemerge.html">Prev</a></div><div style="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><a accesskey="n" href="other.html">Next</a></div><div align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></div></div><div style="background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div class="navLeft">Doing A Directory Merge </div><div class="navRight"> Other Functions in Directory Merge Window</div><div class="navCenter"><a accesskey="u" href="dirmerge.html">Up</a></div></div><br><br><div class="bannerBottom" style="background-image: url(help:/common/bottom-middle.png); background-repeat: x-repeat; width: 100%; height: 100px; bottom:0px;"><div class="BannerBottomRight"><img src="help:/common/bottom-right.png" style="margin: 0px" alt=""></div><div class="bannerBottomLeft"><img src="help:/common/bottom-left.png" style="margin: 0px;" alt=""></div><div id="comments" style="position:relative; top: 5px; left: 1em; height:85px; width: 50%; color: #cfe1f6"><p>Would you like to make a comment or contribute an update to this page?<br>
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