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Compare Directories

Products: Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA

Vendor: Olivier Descout

Email: descout underscore olivier at yahoo dot fr

Website: http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?idea&id=113

SourceCode: Compare_Directories_113.zip

License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Description:

Allows the fast comparison of two directories or archive files (jar, zip, war... and also tar/gz) in IntelliJ IDEA, based on file contents.
Single file differences can be viewed with the usual IDEA diff window.
Diffs in compiled Java class structure and bytecode can also be viewed using the usual IDEA diff window and a built-in Java disassembler.
Detects blank-only differences in text files. Can also detect user-defined differences in text files and differences in source file comments, called «non-significant differences».
Provides some basic mass-merging facilities on compared files and directories (copy/delete on files or directories).

See the online help bundled in the plugin for more information (complete plugin sources are also bundled for the IDEA plugin developers' convenience).

Downloads: 20598
Rating:
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Version Since Build Until Build File/URL Size (Kb) Date Details
1.0.5. 120. . Download 1026.25 2012-12-20 01:44:05 details
1.0.5. 110. 119.99. Download 1025.78 2012-12-20 01:42:58 details
1.0.4. 93.13. . Download 1024.93 2011-07-12 00:36:29 details
1.0.3. 60.6700. . Download 1021.79 2010-09-28 10:07:38 details
0.9.7. 40.3000. 60.6699. Download 451.69 2008-06-12 00:11:29 details
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Recent change notes:

Made the plugin work with IDEA 12

General usage instructions:

Execute the
Compare Directories... menu command, select two directories or zip/jar files containing files with the same file names and see the comparison results on the opened Compare Directories panel:

- Files and directories are shown depending on the differences in their contents: identical, different by blanks only, non-significantly different, different, left-only, right-only.

- Compared text file can be then edited within IDEA.

- Compared text file differences can be then viewed with the usual IDEA diff window.

- Compared class bytecode differences can be also viewed with the usual IDEA diff window.

- Files and directories can be copied from one side to the other.



You will find many more details in the bundled help pages.


Hints:

- When a file has been renamed between 2 compared directories or archives and belongs to the same directory node, the left-only node and right-only node can be merged. Merged nodes can be split if necessary.

- In programming source files, differences in comments can be considered non-significant, to distinguish them from differences in programming instructions. See the non-signicantly diffs of the compare-directory settings dialog box to activate it.




Installation:

Open Settings > Plugins

Find the "Compare Directories" plugin in the available plugins list, right click on it and choose install


Note: the latest plugin versions require
Idea 7 or more.

Comments:

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olivier.descout
Rated: noRate
2012-12-19 01:49:32
Sorry guys, I was off the field for a year now. Now I'm back and the plugin too!
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Uxian
Rated:
2012-11-01 14:48:50
Doesn't work with IntelliJ 11.
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Anonymous
Rated:
2012-08-02 14:36:25
I used this plug-in allot in the past, but it doesn't seem to work anymore :(. What a pity!
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And Finally
Rated:
2012-05-15 12:09:00
I love this plugin! Unfortunately it hasn't worked in the last several versions of IntelliJ. I'm running IntelliJ 11.1 and plugin 1.0.4. When I try to compare two directories I get this:

08:48:56 PluginException: org.intellij.idea.dirdiff.action.CompareDirectoryMenuBarAction: group with id "SearchMenu" isn't registered; action will be added to the "Other" group [Plugin: Compare Directories]: org.intellij.idea.dirdiff.action.CompareDirectoryMenuBarAction: group with id "SearchMenu" isn't registered; action will be added to the "Other" group [Plugin: Compare Directories]
08:49:20 NoClassDefFoundError: Error during dispatching of java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_RELEASED,(312,825),absolute(304,817),button=1,modifiers=Button1,clickCount=1] on frame0: com/intellij/ui/TreeToolTipHandler
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Anonymous
Rated:
2011-05-09 20:51:42
Nice tool, but I wish there was a way to not compare recursively. I have two directories I want to compare, but they both contain sub-directories that I don't want compared.
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Anonymous
Rated:
2010-11-02 21:20:52
Thank you!
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Anonymous
Rated:
2010-10-26 13:06:30
Excellent! After installing new version 1.0.3 (93.13.) I can confirm the plugin works under Linux as well (uninstalled 1.0.2 and installed new 1.0.3 through plugin manager).Thank you very much.
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olivier.descout
Rated:
2010-10-16 17:24:09
This is odd... The plugin works fine with IDEA 9 under Windows. Looks like the faulty IDEA class still exists in the IDEA-9 Windows distribution (though it has become deprecated) but has been removed from the Linux distribution.

I found a replacement class in IDEA 9 that should fix the issue, but since I have no easy access to a Linux workstation with IDEA installed on it, I cannot make sure the problem is fully solved. :-( All I can do is making sure the plugin works fine under the Windows distribution of IDEA-9.

I'm about to publish an IDEA-9-specific version of the plugin containing the fix. Could you tell me if it is fine then? Thanks.
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Anonymous
Rated: noRate
2010-10-05 22:30:38
Actually it looks like previous version (1.0.2) works in Idea Community Edition on Linux.
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Anonymous
Rated: noRate
2010-10-05 22:22:07
Unfortunately cannot use plugin (1.0.3) with IC-95.429 (on Linux).

Error during dispatching of java.awt.event.MouseEvent[MOUSE_RELEASED,(115,270),absolute(115,270),button=1,modifiers=Button1,clickCount=1] on frame0: com.intellij.ui.TreeSpeedSearch.(Lcom/intellij/util/ui/Tree;Lcom/intellij/util/containers/Convertor;Z)V
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.intellij.ui.TreeSpeedSearch.(Lcom/intellij/util/ui/Tree;Lcom/intellij/util/containers/Convertor;Z)V
at org.intellij.idea.dirdiff.view.CompareDirectoryPanel$UI.createUI(CompareDirectoryPanel.java:584)

Anybody having similar problem? Is it possible to use plugin with Community Edition?
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olivier.descout
Rated:
2010-03-19 01:03:51
leszekgruchala, part of your wish has been granted: a new version of the plugin is about to be released with many improvements, including the ability to classify differences in comments as "non-significant differences" (and show them separately from "identical" and "different" files.)

Unfortunately, leszekgruchala, coldserenity, this version cannot compare folders stored in VCS. I didn't yet find a way to retrieve folder structure and file content which is simple, efficient, VCS-independent and working with IDEA 7, 8 and 9 all at the same time. Until then, you still have to retrieve complete snapshots of the source-controlled folder trees you want to compare.
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coldserenity
Rated:
2010-03-15 18:44:40
Nice plug-in!

Any plans to make it able of comparing different branches (starting from specified roots) in VCS?
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leszekgruchala
Rated:
2010-03-08 15:33:32
Works well with IDEA 9.0.1 Ultimate on Mac.

To make it perfect would be nice to have compare with branches and ignore for differences in comments.

Kudos for you!
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Anonymous
Rated:
2010-03-04 15:02:53
That's something I was looking for!
Now I can easily review developers branches within idea :)

Thanks!
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Anonymous
Rated:
2009-08-13 15:55:11
Fantastic!
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