debian man page for kdiff3

KDIFF3(1)						      General Commands Manual							 KDIFF3(1)

NAME
       KDiff3 -- compares two or three input files or directories

SYNOPSIS
       KDiff3 [QT options]  [KDE options]  [KDiff3 options]  [File1/base]  [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

	  o  compares or merges two or three text input files or directories

	  o  shows the differences line by line and character by character

	  o  provides an automatic merge-facility and

	  o  an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts

	  o  supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs

	  o  supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.)

	  o  Printing of differences

	  o  Manual alignment of lines

	  o  Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$)

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...)

       -L1 alias
		 Visible name replacement for first file/base file.

       -L2 alias
		 Visible name replacement for second file.

       -L3 alias
		 Visible name replacement for third file.

       -L, --fname alias
		 Visible name replacement. May by supplied for each input.

       --cs string
		 Change a setting, e. g. --cs "AutoAdvance=1".

       --confighelp
		 Show a list of all settings and their values.

       --config file
		 Use a different settings file.

       --author
		 Show author of program.

       -v, --version
		 Show version of program.

       --license
		 Show license of program.

AUTHOR
       This  manual  page was written by Eike Sauer <eike@debian.org> 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.

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