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Re: FileMerge Replacements
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Re: FileMerge Replacements


  • Subject: Re: FileMerge Replacements
  • From: David Dolinar <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:58:19 -0700

On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Jerry wrote:
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.

I don't have much of an answer for your first complaint. However you should know that there indeed are keyboard shortcuts. Try using the down & up arrows to move between differences, and the left and right arrow to 'choose' which version you want.


One complaint that some of my coworkers have is that it is difficult to compare two separate files from within XCode. It sure would be nice if XCode had a dialog similar to CodeWarrior's compare dialog, specifically one that has popup's to choose which files you want to compare (and where to save the resulting merge file).


-- David Dolinar, Software Developer -- Directory Resources, LLC


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