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Re: FileMerge Replacements
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Re: FileMerge Replacements


  • Subject: Re: FileMerge Replacements
  • From: Jerry <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:11:04 +0000


On 27 Feb 2006, at 15:46, Matt Neuburg wrote:

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

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