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NAME

       tkdiff - view the differences between two files

SYNOPSIS

       tkdiff [OPTION]...[FILES...]

DESCRIPTION

       tkdiff is a graphical front-end for the standard Unix ’diff’ utility.

       Its  features  include  highlighted  difference  regions  (with a quick
       overview/navigation bar) and linked scrolling  of  files.  It  provides
       file-merge  and  change-summary  facilities,  line number toggling (for
       easier cut & paste) and support for Subversion, RCS, CVS and SCCS.

OPTIONS

       -rREV  diff against revision REV

       -a ANCESTORFILE

       -o MERGEOUTPUTFILE
              Output to MERGEOUTPUTFILE

       -L LEFT_FILE_LABEL [-L RIGHT_FILE_LABEL]
              Label left and right file windows respectively.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

EXAMPLES

       Interactive selection of files to compare:
           tkdiff

       Plain files:
           tkdiff FILE1 FILE2

       Plain file with conflict markers:
           tkdiff -conflict FILE

       Source control (AccuRev, BitKeeper, CVS,  Subversion,  Perforce,  PVCS,
       RCS, SCCS, ClearCase)
           tkdiff FILE
           tkdiff -rREV FILE
           tkdiff -rREV1 -rREV2 FILE
           tkdiff OLD-URL[@OLDREV] NEW-URL[@NEWREV] (Subversion)

SEE ALSO

       diff(1)

AUTHOR

       tkdiff was written by John M. Klassa.

       This manual page was written by Barry deFreese <bdefreese@comcast.net>,
       for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

                                 May 28, 2008