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Hound vs Code Compare: What are the differences?
What is Hound? A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests. Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations.
What is Code Compare? Compare and Merge Your Source Code. It is a free compare tool designed to compare and merge differing files and folders. Code Compare integrates with all popular source control systems: TFS, SVN, Git, Mercurial, and Perforce. Code Compare is shipped both as a standalone file diff tool and a Visual Studio extension.
Hound and Code Compare can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Hound are:
- Open source
- Free for public repos
- Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations
On the other hand, Code Compare provides the following key features:
- Text Comparison and Merging
- Semantic Source Code Comparison
- Folder Сomparison
Hound is an open source tool with 1.76K GitHub stars and 398 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Code Compare
Pros of Hound
- Comments on style so I don't have to4
- Easy configuration3
- Fast3
- Free for OSS2
- Inline comments2
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