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?

Answer 1

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.