Diff tool which generates documentation?

Question

I have tried Beyond Compare, and it seems to be a good tool. But I haven't found a way to export an overview of the differences.

The format of it should be one that most people can read. Doc, Rtf, Pdf, Html...

What I need is to display the differences of two folder. And it would be enough to display which files has been changed. But it would also be nice if it would be possible to, in the documentation, go deeper and actually see which rows in a file has been changed.

Are there any tools that can do this?

Answer 1

Araxis Merge covered all of my needs.

• Simple to use
• Generated a nice overview of files in folder structure
• Could click on changed files to see the changes in the content

The colors could be better, but that can be solved by inserting a custom CSS-file. :)

Answer 2

Beyond Compare has some functions to do that.

For example, in the folder diff view, select the files you want to report and then select Actions->File Compare Report. HTML is one of the output formats supported there.

Answer 3

This script to colorize diff output to HTML might be useful. There are many other tools, one more is difftool.

On a relatively different note, I had used a code coverage tool that also generated HTML code views from gcov coverage information. Its called lcov.