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Re: Merge - tools or tutorial

From: DistillingTortoise <renatosviana_at_yahoo.com.br>
Date: 2007-07-26 13:52:55 CEST

Simon,

Very nice explanation. I think I have to study a little bit more of
handling of unified diff files.
Thank you so much.

Simon Large-5 wrote:
>
> On 26/07/07, DistillingTortoise <renatosviana@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>> I am new using the merge with tortoise and I would like to know if there
>> is
>> a better tool to apply my modifications or the diff/merge feature in the
>> tortoise should be sufficient?
>>
>> I also didn't find a good examplanation about the diff/merge in the
>> tortoise
>> tutorial.
>
> That depends what you want to do.
>
> Merging local changes and changes from the repository is done by
> Subversion. If there are conflicts, these have to be resolved using a
> 3-way merge tool. You can use TortoiseMerge for that, or you can use
> any one of a number of 3rd party tools as explained in our manuals
> (look under settings in the 1.4.x manual).
>
> Diffing changes can also be done using TortoiseMerge, or a 3rd party
> diff program, again as described in the manual.
>
> Applying patches and comparing your WC with an older revision requires
> handling of unified diff files, which can only be done using
> TortoiseMerge as it handles fetching of the required files from
> Subversion automatically.
>
> Personally I use TortoiseMerge all the time. Others like to use
> WinMerge or KDiff3. UltraCompare looks promising too, although it's
> not free.
>
> Simon
>
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