

This is what will appear in the WinSCP toolbar so keep it short. For the description field, simply enter WinMerge.In the left pane of the Preferences dialogue box, click Commands.Click Options > Preferences in the WinSCP menu.Like most of WinSCP's features, you have to be logged in to see its main user interface. Launch WinSCP and login to an FTP site.Doing this once in a while isn't too inconvenient but if you need to compare online and offline files regularly or compare very large files, this process can quickly become a real pain. When comparing online and offline source code files, the process is typically to download the online file over FTP or SCP using WinSCP and then compare that to a local version of the file using some file comparison tool or eye-balling the two files in a code editor by flipping back and forth. In this article, I will describe how to integrate WinMerge into WinSCP to compare a local version of a file to a remote version. One of the many really cool features of WinSCP is the ability to add custom commands.
