Looking for Good File/Folder Comparison Utility

[harra]

OK,

Lately, I've been getting entire directory structures from our vendor whenever they are releasing a simple "fix" to the application we support. The problem is, we don't know what files they have changed and this requires us to do a thorough testing of the entire application because we don't know where they have been in the code. This is very time consuming.

I would like to find a good, prefereable free-ware utility that would allow me to compare the existing directory tree to the one I have been given to replace it that will tell me which files are different. I don't want a simple date/time comparison to determine a difference.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Plasma2002b]

well....


i dont know about directory comparisom....


but if your wanting a file comparison utility, then HexWorkshop has it built in..... its not really its main function, per se, but yeah...

i dunno what kinda files your workin with either tho

[harra]

Brian,

Mainly .HTML, .XML, and Java .CLASS files. I just want to find a program that will allow me to provide a starting directory and it will crawl through the directories reporting the files/directories that are new and/or different.

[Michael]

What system are you using? Maybe you could write a script to do that.

[fuuucckkers]

harra,

check out this program, on SourceForge

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge/