Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 4 months ago
#2837 new Feature request
Compare file contents with external program (File Diff)
| Reported by: | korneel | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | FileZilla Client |
| Keywords: | File Diff | Cc: | korneel, Tim Kosse, Alexander Schuch, PhoneixSegovia@…, igitur@… |
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Description
I just thought of it, it would come rather handy in some occasions, to be able to compare online and local files, throu WinMerge or similar.
On downloading, the 'overwrite?' popup could give the option to compare, merge or the current options.
If compared, the online version could be stored in a temporary file for comparison.
Change History (24)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
comment:2 by , 15 years ago
I really like to see this feature too.
When I'm returning to an old project and find differences between the online and local version, I'm always wondering what's the difference. Now I have to download the files and compare manually. If support is added for WinMerge it could make things really easy.
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
It would be a very nice improvement.
It could be as the edit option but with two files selected. And I think the external program must be configurable (don't bind to one).
follow-up: 5 comment:4 by , 14 years ago
| Operating system type: | → Windows |
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Ideally the feature would allow you to define a default diffing program to use, but it would be nice if you could define a different program based on file extension. You might want a different differ for txt, PDF, binary, XML, etc.
comment:5 by , 14 years ago
Replying to scottri:
Ideally the feature would allow you to define a default diffing program to use, but it would be nice if you could define a different program based on file extension. You might want a different differ for txt, PDF, binary, XML, etc.
But don't bind it to windows only, I use it on mac os and linux.
comment:6 by , 14 years ago
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| Operating system type: | Windows |
comment:7 by , 14 years ago
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It might be worth looking at how Total Commander (Windows client) does it. IMO, it is exactly the functionality that we'd want in FileZilla too.
It allows comparison of files in an external program.
Also, if the external program modifies the remote version of the file (which is kept in a temp directory), FileZilla should prompt if we want to upload the changed file back to the server.
Total Commander can also do an in-depth directory comparison (including subdirectories), but I think that's something for a separate ticket.
comment:8 by , 13 years ago
Hi,
this feature would save me so much time! It would be great to be able to initiate a comparison of remote vs local file from within Filezilla, even if there wasn't the integration to allow the merged file to be saved back to local/remote version.
I think that Dreamweaver allows the user to specify the external compare tool, which woul dbe nice, but even if tied to WinMerge that would be absolutely great for me!
Andy
comment:9 by , 13 years ago
I would like this feature as well. It will make my work so much easier!!!
comment:10 by , 13 years ago
It will be a great feature. Used with navigation sync and file list comparing tools, it will be awesome.
You can just place a button in toolbar that is enabled when two file are selected in local and remote (or when one file is selected and navigation sync is enabled). When clicked:
- FileZilla download the remote file in a temporary location, just as it does now when editing a remote file.
- An external diff tool is opened (example, WinMerge for Windows) showing local file on the left and remote file (i.e. temporary downloaded file) on the right.
- FileZilla has not to worry about the changes we made in both directions using the diff tool: simply, when temporary file is changed by the diff tool, FileZilla will ask for upload, just as it does now when editing files!
Is that difficult to implement? I'm not familiar with C++ (I am more into C# and Java), otherwise I will help you!
comment:11 by , 13 years ago
I'd also like to see this feature added... This is something that Adobe Dreamweaver can do and one of the only things I still use it for.
comment:12 by , 12 years ago
Me too. I often develop code from multiple computers, and upload it to a single web site. It would be very handy to be able to launch a comparison tool to see which version of a file (local or remote) is newer, or if they even both have changes that I need to keep. I would probably launch WinMerge, which would then let me merge changes to the local file from the (local copy of) the remote file.
comment:13 by , 12 years ago
+1 It would be very, very handy. And I think it would be easy to implement to pass the files to an external diff viewer (eg. meld on Linux) similarily to the remote editing functionality
comment:14 by , 11 years ago
+1 please implement this, make this program better, I love it but it is becoming a bit outdated !
comment:15 by , 10 years ago
+ 1 for this feature. Even basic support for this feature would be greatly appreciated. Just allowing a download with diff would really be great. This request is 7 years old.
comment:16 by , 10 years ago
| Keywords: | File Diff added |
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| Summary: | Compare file contents with external program → Compare file contents with external program (File Diff) |
comment:17 by , 10 years ago
At least three other tickets that I could find were created and closed as duplicates of this...
http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/5065
http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/7159
http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/10174
Thanks
comment:18 by , 10 years ago
Has this been commenced by anyone? (I guess not?)
Btw, TortoiseSvn also has a nice solution for this.
comment:20 by , 7 years ago
Anyone still looking at this? This would be a great addition. I use ForkLift on OSX and i'm moving to Ubuntu and have not found any FTP client that i can configure to do a diff of local and remote files.
Forlift allows me to create custom actions and one of the actions i use the most is file comparison.
Please, could someone let us know of dev plans? Do they include this?
Thanks, best regards!
comment:21 by , 4 years ago
I need this feature, too. Everytime when I see that a file is different on server and local, I have to downalod the file in a temp folder, start my Diff software, and open the local and the downloaded file in the Diff software. A new menu item "Compare file content" which automatically downloads the selected file on server and starts my Diff software with two parameters "local file" and "downloaded file" would be great and saves a lot of time.
comment:22 by , 4 years ago
This would be a very handy feature. I have used FileZilla for many years and keep hoping that this will be implemented at some point. I want to quickly be able to right click a file and perform the diff.
Please consider this important feature request.
comment:23 by , 3 years ago
I've registered to ask for that feature :)
It will make my developer life much easier.
Shortcut for this function would be also nice.
Please consider to implement this feature, if it is possible.
Thank you very much for what we already have - FileZilla you're doing great job!
comment:24 by , 4 months ago
"Opened 17 years ago". Oh dear.
Just bought a 5 year sub - forgot you STILL can't do this, and it looks like it is never going to happen.
How about it? Using WinScp makes this easy, but now fully committed to OSX, and this feature is *really* missed in FileZilla Pro. Please?
Replying to korneel:
I'm favor on this feature provide dynamism at work time, also, this option can be appear in the selected file menu if an online/local file with same name exists, and open for editing the selected file.