On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:57:00 +0000, Andrew Ebling <email@hidden>
said:
I've only used FileMerge a few times (the source code merging tool
that comes with xcode), but I'm already looking for something a bit
smarter to replace it. I'm of the opinion that a file merging tool
should make the task easier than doing it completely by hand.
I'm very keen on a Windows utility called Beyond Compare. Does
anyone know of something similar for OS X? I notice that xcode can
be configured to use BBEdit instead of FileMerge, but at 199USD it is
out of my price range - something under 60USD would be more
appropriate.
I'm confused. How is what BBEdit does less "by hand" than what
FileMerge
does? m.
To my mind, two things stand out:
1) FileMerge asks you for a merge folder when you want to save
changes. Now, I'm not sure I've ever in my life wanted to save a
merge into a third location - I always want to merge changes from one
file into another. There should be an option to merge into the right
hand folder, and the folder selection dialog should come up pointing
to that folder by default. I have many times accidentally saved
merges into the wrong folder, sometime destroying perfectly good files.
2) To apply a diff from one side to another FileMerge uses a popup
button control for which there's no keyboard shortcut. This is
needlessly tedious - it should have a button and a menu item so you
don't have to wear out your fingers clicking and dragging when you
want to apply a thousand changes in a merge.
I find CW or TextWrangler much safer and faster for file merging than
FileMerge because of these two reasons. They're not huge things to
fix though and I'd happily switch to FileMerge if they were.
Jerry
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Xcode-users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/email@hidden
