ECMerge Standard (Windows) 2.2

ECMerge Standard (Windows) 2.2 is a unique and extremely powerful tool that allows you to compare and merge local, FTP or SCC repositories data, as text, images and folders. It compares side-by-side. It is designed to make you work with multiple revisions of text files with ease and to keep multiple folder hierarchies in sync.

ECMerge saves automatically sessions and let you save your own named sessions to launch them again in one click or with the command line. It generates reports in Unix patch, XML and HTML format for Text, Images and Folder Comparisons, with many customizable options.

ECMerge is a complete solution from differences your Word DOCX file to merging your source code, applying patch or producing CSV reports. It is scripting based on JavaScript core let you use its capabilities and define new commands.

A shell extension is provided under Windows to select items to compare and launch ECMerge. A command line is provided to merge files and generate reports from batches. This version is specified for Microsoft Windows.

Major Features: 

1. ECMerge compares quickly thanks to its multi threaded comparison engine. It determines precisely the difference between text files, images and folders.
2. The differences inside lines and the syntax colouring for numerous languages save you a great amount of time.
3. ECMerge compares not only the files with an ancestor, but as well folders: this is unavoidable when using heterogenous SCC or when your SCC does not save latest ancestor information.
4. The text files merge / reconciliation is fast and secure (thanks to the security distance) and automated.
5. The numerous options available in the contextual menu save you from the error prone process of typing text. When necessary, editing supports unlimited Undo/Refo.
6. Thanks to its built-in converter Xtract, ECMerge compares Word documents and OpenOffice Text with no third party software: on all platforms.
7. Of course, for other file formats, quality converter are available
8. ECMerge accesses not only files over FTP/FTPS, on your computer or local network, but as well directly within your source code repositories in your SCC / SCM.
9. This access is already available for: CVS, SubVersion, Perforce, Visual SourceSafe, Evolution. Checkout is also proposed for Code Co-op.
10. Archives converters are as well available and let you compare content of archives files

Enhancements:

1. Added file types (to ignore specific lines)
2. Added launcher, automatic sessions and workspaces
3. Added Xtrcat converter for DOCX/SXW/ODT
4. Scripting in contextual menus
5. Folder view improvements

Requirements: IE 4.0 or later on Windows