netbeans Diff for folders

Description

As Apache Netbeans can compare folder to historical one in version control system so It should not be so problematic to enable that diff even for local folders so not only diff for two regular file (non-folder) as is now in tools menu.

Use case/motivation

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Related issues

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Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

Mar 18 '25 08:03 netbeansuser2019

I can understand your feature request and if you think that this is not a big deal, please try to do it by your own, until someone else does this. I know this is not the answer, that yo expect but if it is a real little thing, this is your start into contributing into NetBeans and be part of it not only as a user :)

Mar 18 '25 21:03 Chris2011

@netbeansuser2019 please have a look at #8622. That is my suggestion for an implementation. A nightly build can be accessed from the checks page or directly: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/suites/40642924030/artifacts/3395375974

Jun 24 '25 19:06 matthiasblaesing

Updated nightly (fixed license header in a form): https://github.com/apache/netbeans/suites/40777349420/artifacts/3413435561

Jun 27 '25 17:06 matthiasblaesing