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RE: [TSVN] Diff/Merge utility suggestion

From: Brad Rhoads <brhoads_at_zethcon.com>
Date: 2004-08-13 17:34:02 CEST

This might be OK. We've used their Directory Toolkit for a long time. But I
haven't worked with file merge yet.

http://www.funduc.com/file_merge_express.htm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick_Gianakas@sybari.com [mailto:Nick_Gianakas@sybari.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:21 AM
> To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: [TSVN] Diff/Merge utility suggestion
>
> First and foremost: TortoiseSVN is excellent!
>
> The only dissapointment I've found is in TortoiseMerge.
> Probably due to its infancy, the utility is not very usable.
> For instance, I cannot manually edit a file while merging. I
> also cannot use both changes--it's either one or the other
> (ie. "mine" or "theirs").
> I wanted to suggest using one of the more mature diff/merge
> programs already available. One that I like is meld
> (meld.sourceforge.net). If you cannot use the source (for
> licensing issues), perhaps leverage some ideas. Meld allows
> me to edit _any_ of the files (using its editor or one that I
> specify) and it dynamically updates the diff. It also allows
> me to overwrite changes or append/prepend them to the file.
> And its tabbed-pane layout is very convenient when working w/
> multiple files. Syntax highlighting is nice too. One really
> nice feature is that meld shows the actual difference between
> two lines--not just that they are different. For
> instance:
> < abc
> > abd
>
> Meld will highlight the 'c' and 'd' differently--makes it
> very easy to see what's going on.
>
> I know TortoiseSVN allows me to specify external diff/merge
> programs, I just don't know of any good ones for Win32.
>
> Thanks and keep up the great work!
>
> Regards,
> Nick G.
>
>
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