How to compare your project files and folders in IntelliJ IDEA. Explore differences between files and directories in IntelliJ IDEA, for example, revisions of the same file under version control.

IntelliJ IDEA helps explore differences in the various situations: differences between files, directories, revisions of the same file under version control or in the local history, database objects, local and remote files.

All these operations are performed in a similar way. In this section we'll consider the most basic operations: