How to easily compare local and remote files via SFTP

Question

I would like to compare local and remote files via sftp or other method, dreamweaver has the option of doing this in your favorite merge editor (i like winmerge), but I am not using dw at this juncture. Are there any other decent (windows7) programs out there that do synchronize and compare nicely?

Solution

Beyond Compare does (using our SFTP components BTW), but the way is not quite obvious -- you need to enter the URL in the form of "sftp://[email protected]/path/to/directory/" as a directory to compare. I have yet to find how to store this string in some reusable way in Beyond Compare.

Upd: Forgot to mention that Beyond Compare handles regular FTP and FTP-over-TLS as well.

Comments

[nevets1219]

Doesn't BeyondCompare's session save the string?

[Eugene Mayevski 'Callback]

@nevets1219 should save, as part of the session (which is probably ok for most scenarios). There's an FTP/SFTP account manager as well, but again the way to use it was not obvious from the first glance.

[nevets1219]

Just tested and in BeyondCompare it stores the URL in the saved sessions.

[Traveling_Monk]

yes I love that feature in dreamweaver but dont use dw anymore, my question does any ftp program have the same options of synchronization and comparison....

[Sun]

SFTP or FTP over SSL is supported in version 3, but not in version 2. You can use a separate tunneling software and point Beyond Compare 2.x to localhost and the custom port that tunnels you to the SFTP connection.