{"id":268,"date":"2021-03-08T16:19:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/faq\/general\/what-diff-and-merge-tools-can-i-use-with-versionsql\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T16:41:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:41:48","slug":"what-diff-and-merge-tools-can-i-use-with-versionsql","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/faq\/using-scripts\/what-diff-and-merge-tools-can-i-use-with-versionsql\/","title":{"rendered":"What diff and merge tools can I use with VersionSQL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VersionSQL ships with its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/documentation\/features\/internal-diff-viewer\/\">internal diff viewer<\/a>.\u00a0 However, you can configure it to use any diff or merge tool that can be run from the command line.<\/p>\n<p>VersionSQL will auto-detect the following, if installed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.araxis.com\/merge\/\">Araxis Merge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scootersoftware.com\/\">Beyond Compare<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devart.com\/codecompare\/\">DevArt Code Compare<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sourcegear.com\/diffmerge\/\">SourceGear DiffMerge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kdiff3.sourceforge.net\/\">KDiff3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meldmerge.org\/\">Meld<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.microsoft.com\/\">Visual Studio 2017 and 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/\">Visual Studio Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winmerge.org\/\">WinMerge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":485,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-268","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/268\/revisions\/1478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/485"}],"prev":[{"title":"Will VersionSQL automatically deploy SQL to a production SQL Server?","link":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/faq\/using-scripts\/will-versionsql-automatically-deploy-sql-to-a-production-sql-server\/","href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.versionsql.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}