Beyond Compare是由Scooter Software开发的一款功能强大的文件和文件夹比较工具。它使用户可以快速比较文件和文件夹，并轻松合并更改。Beyond Compare支持各种比较方法，包括文本、二进制和图像比较，使其适用于不同类型的文件。

其主要功能之一是能够同步文件夹，使用户能够清楚地看到文件和文件夹之间的差异并有效管理它们。它还与版本控制系统如Git和SVN集成，增强了其对开发人员和合作项目团队的实用性。

Beyond Compare 提供了用户友好的界面和可自定义的设置，使用户可以根据个人喜好轻松调整比较标准和查看选项。它可在 Windows、macOS 和 Linux 平台上运行，适合不同操作系统的广泛用户。

Beyond Compare是一个非常有用的工具，适合需要精确比较文件和文件夹、高效管理差异、以及在多个平台和环境中无缝同步内容的用户。其强大的功能和直观的设计使其成为专业人士和爱好者的热门选择。

关键功能：

• 文件夹和文件比较：并排比较整个目录和单个文件。
• 三方合并：有效合并三个文件或文件夹之间的更改。
• 同步：通过单向和双向同步，将不同位置的文件和文件夹保持最新。
• 文本、图像和十六进制比较：比较带有语法高亮的文本文件、逐像素的图像和以十六进制显示的二进制文件。
• 文件夹合并：智能合并文件夹之间的差异。
• 脚本和自动化：使用内置脚本功能自动执行任务。
• 可自定义视图：自定义差异显示方式以提高清晰度。
• 集成：与版本控制系统如Git、SVN和Mercurial集成。

- Data Compare
  - Updated parsing when pasting to work the same as an initial load for the
    purposes of delimiter type, quotes, leading/trailing whitespace, and
    consecutive delimiters.
  - Fixed Find when the only matches are in hidden columns.
  - Fixed tolerance support for localized decimal character.

- File Formats
  - Fixed "Registry Dumps" file format so comments only begin at the start of
    a line.

- File Views
  - Fixed gutter width when adding lines adds a digit to the line numbers.
  - Fixed splitter moving after saving changes to an originally empty side.

- Folder Compare
  - Double clicking in the space across from an orphan file now opens a file
    comparison view.
  - Fixed background coloring so "Same" color is only used for "Same" items.
  - Fixed "Flatten Folders" mode when sorting by path so it doesn't reset to
    sorting by name after certain actions (e.g., Exclude).
  - Fixed support for "Name Filter Preset" with name containing parentheses.

- Folder Sync
  - Fixed Legend dialog.
  - Fixed resizing the window very small and then larger to preserve the
    toolbar and panel layout.

- FTP
  - Added support for binary and rules-based content comparisons on FTP
    servers that don't report file sizes.

- Hex Compare
  - DEL character is now shown in the ASCII panel as '.'

- Linux
  - Fixed "General" options page enabling of "Show keyboard shortcut in hints".

- Misc
  - Fixed displaying workspace names containing '&' characters.
  - Fixed support for keyboard shortcuts using the semicolon.
  - Fixed color combobox not invalidating when switching from an element set
    to "Default" to one set to "Black".

- Options
  - Added registry value to disable check for updates for all users (Open
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare and create a
    DWORD value named DisableCheckForUpdates with a value of 1).
  - Fixed "Folder Display" options page's "Factory Defaults" button to reset
    the Selection coloring's "Use System" option.
  - Fixed clearing "Shared sessions file" to update session treeviews.

- Picture Compare
  - Fixed "Only Difference Layout" handling of "AutoZoom".

- Registry Compare
  - Fixed support for modifying or deleting registry values with names
    containing "/" characters.

- Reports
  - Fixed HTML report handling of leading and trailing whitespace.
  - Fixed HTML report handling of two space characters that straddle a      tag.
  - Fixed tab expansion in Text Compare reports.
  - Fixed Folder Compare reports to not include FTP passwords and to use
    /title# command line arguments.
  - Fixed HTML report handling of soft hyphens.
  - Fixed filename collisions when saving multiple Picture Compare HTML
    reports to the same folder.

- Sessions
  - Fixed manually selected file formats not to appear in the Session dialog's
    File Format comboboxes twice.

- Text Edit
  - Fixed using "Open Clipboard" in a view followed by "Open with Text Edit"
    using current clipboard instead of the pasted view's data.

- Text Compare
  - Fixed displaying replacements with leading '_' characters in the Session
    Settings dialog.
  - Fixed updating the splitter position after saving pasted text.
  - Fixed "Next Difference" behavior when there are unimportant alignment gaps.
  - Fixed crash on startup.

- Text Merge
  - Fixed changing file format settings to prompt before regenerating the
    merge output.
  - Fixed center pane not detecting some grammar elements.