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COMPARE FOLDERS CODE

For example, if you're using Git, you can go to VCS → Git or right click your editor and select Git. If you're using a Version Control System, you have several more comparison options. Here you can browse older versions of your current file and see the difference between the old and the current version and apply any changes if required. You can right-click in your editor and select Local history → Show history. Comparing with the previous local version of the fileĮven if you're not using any Version Control system, IDEA stores historical versions of your local files. This opens a brand new diff window with both panels blank, so you can copy and paste both snippets to be compared.

COMPARE FOLDERS CODE

What about the case when you want to compare two non-file code snippets from external sources? You can do this too! Just run Find Action via Ctrl + Shift + A and then search for Open Blank Diff Window. If you want just a selection instead, select some fragment of the file first and then right-click as before.

If you want the whole file to be compared, just right-click anywhere in the editor and select Compare with Clipboard from the context menu. Either compare the whole file against the clipboard or just a selection. Then copy to clipboard the snipped you want to compare ( Ctrl+ C). Maybe it is a code snippet from the web, for example, from stack overflow.įirst, you need to open the file from your project in your editor. Maybe you have a file in your project, and you need to compare it with some external content, which is not saved as a file on your machine. Now the comparison is the same as in the example above. The last step is to browse for an external file to compare with.

Right-click one of the files and select Compare With.

Select a single file in your project window and: Comparing with non-project fileĪnother case is when you need to compare a file from your project with another file outside of it.

This comparison works for images, too, although you cannot see and apply individual differences. You can click the arrow icons » and « to apply a particular change from one file to another.

No coloring means the content is the same.

This is very similar to diff in Version Control Systems such as Git. Now the new window opens, which contains two panels, each with one file.

Right click one of the files and select Compare Files.

Just select both files in your project window (holding Ctrl for multi-selection). Let's say there are two similar files in your project, and you need to compare them line by line. IntelliJ IDEA offers numerous ways of comparing files, folders and code snippets and even synchronizing folder contents.