A lot of web development tools like Dreamweaver and FrontPage like to create annoying files and folders throughout a build. I’m sure they’re useful to somebody, but they just get in the way when you’re doing a comparison of two builds.
I thought I’d share a basic filter I’ve made for WinMerge, which makes it ignore any junk files created by Dreamweaver, FrontPage and Windows.
- Folders ignored:
- _vti_cnf
- _notes
- Files ignored:
- Thumbs.db
- _vti_cnf
- dwsync.xml
I’ll probably add more files to this list as I discover them, but for now please feel free to download the filter (no longer online). If you have any suggestions, please add a comment to this post.