kdiff3(1) compares two or three input files or directories

SYNOPSIS

kdiff3 [QT options] [KDE options] [kdiff3 options] [File1] [File2] [File3]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the kdiff3 tool.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. For comprehensive help, please see khelpcenter help:/kdiff3.
 

kdiff3 is a program that
 

compares two or three input files
shows the differences line by line and character by character
provides an automatic merge-facility and
an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts
and has an intuitive graphical user interface
and allows directory comparison and merge.    

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a full summary of options, run kdiff3 --help.
 
 

-m, --merge
Merge the input.
-b, --base file
Explicit base file. For compatibility with certain tools.
-o, --output file
Output file. Implies -m. E.g.: -o newfile.txt
--out file
Output file, again. (For compatibility with certain tools.)
--auto
No GUI if all conflicts are auto-solvable. (Needs -o file)
--qall
Don't solve conflicts automatically. (For compatibility...)
--fname alias
Visible name replacement. Supply this once for every input.
-v, --version
Show version of program.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Eike Sauer <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 (or, at your option, any later version published by the Free Software Foundation).
 

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.