Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
- Subject: Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
- From: Neil <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:49:58 -0400
On 16 Oct 2008, at 17:51, Jonathan Hess wrote:
On Oct 16, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
On Oct 16, 2008, at 3:49 AM, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
When I try and merge a xib with FileMerge, it works great up to the
point of trying to save the file, at which point it tells me "This
file type cannot be merged". What gives? It looks pretty mergeable
to me...
It's not. A xib file is still an interconnected graph of objects,
not just a sequence of independent statements; any hypothetical
merge would have to take into account the transformation of the
object graph that's represented by the text.
Everything Chris said is true. Additionally, when you view a XIB
file in File Merge, by default you're not actually viewing the
contents of the XIB file, you're viewing the output of "ibtool --all
file.xib". Being the output of a tool, merging doesn't make sense.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems odd to me that one would
try to use FileMerge merge .xib's in the first place; I thought .xib's
hold the GUI elements of a program, wouldn't it be very difficult to
manipulate that auto-generated code using FileMerge..?
-N.
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