Diffuse merge tool kit

Unlike standard Microsoft Word mail merge tools, our utility provides a lot more features; it is faster and easier to use. This utility is a safe and reliable way to work with mass mailings. The merged file is editable. Has slick keyboard shortcuts. See: An advanced feature is to use regular expressions for defining automatic merges. I agree about the merge algorithm. It is incredible sophisticated, and strangely seems to "know" what you want to do in a way that other tools cannot.

It regularly crushes diff3 and Subversion blarg , and can even be helpful with a Git merge. Big user of it, but I find myself seeing if there is a better alternative these days — chrispepper I've never found a 3 way merge app that's significantly better than KDiff3. P4Merge has a more modern interface, but when I tested it you couldn't edit the merged file I think you can do it now.

Mofi MrTelly MrTelly I don't know how to set it to support 3-way merging Can it display a base file in the middle, 2 changed files at left and right, so I can see what are changed in both files based on the base file and have the merged result of 2 changed files in at bottom?

I'm using UltraCompare A bit of googling found this ultraedit. You'll get a screen looking like this: Note the word-difference higlighting. As much as I love ediff, I see only two buffers above There does seem to be a 3-way merge in ediff called ediff-merge-with-ancestor but I'm not sure if it has 3 panes or 4, and also the screenshot above doesn't reflect that. Edited to show a three-way diff ShreevatsaR — unhammer.

If what's shown in the screenshot are the three things being merged, where is the output? You destructively modify one or more! That's why I mentioned that ab will copy the region from buffer a to buffer b. I don't think there's a four-window version of ediff yet. I know emerge uses a dedicated output buffer instead, but emerge-files-with-ancestor doesn't show the ancestor, only uses it to guess the correct version by seeing which one agrees with the ancestor.

Jordan Ryan Moore 6, 2 2 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. Derrick Moser Derrick Moser. And it even supports comparing N files at the same time! This comes handy if you need to compare config files from many homogenous applications. I use Diffuse for my more than three file compares — mohas. Mark Harrison Mark Harrison k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Steve Midgley Steve Midgley 2, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges.

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Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked See more linked questions. Related Hot Network Questions. Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled. This program is unusual in that, aside from the typical 2-pane two way comparison, it provides a 3-pane three-way comparison as well.

It also provides syntax highlighting for a wide array of coding languages, a set of tools to identify differences and merge some or all of them, and tools to manipulate text. It can be launched from the Windows context menu on both 32bit and 64bit Windows for quick, on-the-fly access. You can see from the screenshot that this program will display text files side-by-side and highlight differences in red. Otherwise, here are some PROS and a wish list. The verdict : most readers would want to know if Diffuse holds a candle to WinMerge , which is the de-facto leader in this category, and my answer is that it certainly does.

Diffuse does not quite have the same range of functions and bells and whistles as WinMerge which is extendible via plugins , but in many ways this does not seem to matter and Diffuse is a very solid program all the same. And, possibly, is the more user friendly of the two.

WinMerge also offers a folder comparison functionality, which Diffuse lacks, but I never thought it was a particularly inspired folder comparison tool anyway if you want visual folder comparison use FreeFileSync. On the flip side Diffuse is unique in that it offers 3-way file comparison which I am sure many users will find extremely useful. Here is a tip for developers using Git : have you ever had a hard time merging branches?

Did you know that there are GUI tools to resolve conflicts? They can make your job a lot easier. Today we are going to take a look at two of them: the Atom text editor and the Meld diff and merge tool.

Imagine that you and a coworker are working on a development project and the team use a Git repository to store the source code. In addition to the master branch, each developer has their own branch e. While you are developing a feature, you commit to your branch. When you are finished, you merge your branch into the master branch. Imagine also that you and your colleague are working in parallel on the same file, editing the same part of the file or even the same lines , but your colleague merged his john branch into the master branch before you.

When you try to merge your branch, Git accuses a file conflict:. In case of a merge conflict, you need to manually edit the conflicting files, comparing the changes you and your colleague made and deciding on the final version of the files, and then run git commit to finalize the merge commit.