Overall Satisfaction with BeyondCompare
I use BeyondCompare for a variety of tasks related to web design and development. I frequently use it to compare directories between our development and production web servers. It's also great for general purpose file comparisons, such as comparing a backup file or directory to the actual file or directory to determine if anything has changed. Overall, it's a great utility that any sysadmin, developer, or power user should have.
- Compare two files or directories and easily see what's the same or different between the two sources.
- Synchronize changes between two files or directories.
- Be able to ignore insignificant differences such as code comments, minor timestamp differences, or certain file types, such as temporary files.
- It could make it easier to compare more than two sources.
- It's made it quick and easy to compare and synchronize directories when restoring a backup or copying code from one environment to another one.
- There are times when it would be a painstaking task to manually compare or sync two different directories, but BeyondCompare made it a trivial task.
It's much easier to use than command-line tools like diff.