

There are several ways to choose folders to compare: Command Palette - Compare a folder against workspace choose a folder to compare against the workspace's folder (when workspace is not empty) Choose 2 folders and compare - opens OS folder chooser twice Compare Folders Panel (Click on the icon in the Activity Bar) Click to select a folder see. The Compare dialog box appears and the version control path of the folder that you selected is in the Source Path box. In Source Control Explorer, locate the source folder you want to compare, open its shortcut menu, and then choose Compare. On the View menu, choose Other Windows, and then choose Source Control Explorer. To compare folders by using Folder Difference. Log Saved to: C:\Users\Cmr\Documents\WinMerge\WinMerge.

If you only want to update the existing comparison, you can click the refresh icon on the far right or press the F5 key. The image above - No red icons in folder shown, every folder inside is different The image below - You can see that the subfolder has 3 files that are different from both parent folder. To start a new comparison, click on the “Select Files or Folders” tab in the far left, change the targets and click “Compare” again. By default, the results table lists: the filename, the path of a subdirectory, the result of the. Once it has completed, you’ll see a list of all the files in the folders. If the files to compare are not located in the same folder. With large folders containing a lot of files and subdirectories, the comparison process may take a while to complete. If you want to see what changes you have made in your working copy, just use the explorer.

Configure the comparison, then click “Compare”.
