I use both Meld and Diffuse[1] depending on what I do. I find Diffuse represents diffs better visually, while Meld being better for actually merging contents since you can just click on those arrows.
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
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Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#32I've been using Meld since years ago, and it's my default go-to diff viewer. The visual style they implemented helps me a lot to reason about how lines have been added or deleted from documents in the side by side comparison. Very neat! The directory contents tree diff is also really useful. I wish they made it even easier the basic case of comparing aribtrary text. Maybe it should be the default mode after opening t…
Meld already supports text filters!
absolutely,meld is my favorite,along with the filters
Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#33I’ve been an Araxis Merge man my whole career. Most of my peers are either Araxis or Beyond Compare.
It’d be a great if an OSS tool was as good or better. But my experience thus far is that Araxis/BC3 are simply much better.
Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#34these days, vscode does a fantastic job. you just use code --diff file1.js file2.js
Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#35For visualization I really like kdiff3. Or on terminals https://github.com/mookid/diffr with specific settings that use 256 colors for highlighting word differences as well. But for manual merging I haven't found anything better than ediff. That's the only reason I install emacs on my work machines. Seemless integration into a text editor is just unbeatable.
I like kdiff3 better for 3 way merges, and meld for comparing two files.
Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#36IMHO, Meld is the second best open source tool for doing this. On Windows, WinMerge[1] is a better alternative. Too bad is Windows only. For a non-FOSS and cross platform solution I recommend BeyondCompare (U$30.00)[2]. It replicates most of WinMerge UI. [1] https://winmerge.org/ [2] https://scootersoftware.com/
I setup Git to use Perforce’s P4Merge as the Git mergetool. P4Merge is cross-platform and free and quite good.
Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#37I was given a fresh copy of Windows at work the other week and had to install all tooling afresh. I decided to take the opportunity to try meld.
The first merge I did, even after reading the website, I couldn't fathom it. I understood the paradigm of merging into $BASE but couldn't figure out how to simply take these 5 lines from $REMOTE and these 3 from $LOCAL, so went back to the trusty Beyond Compare.
Might give it another shot.
Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#38I used to use meld before switching to vscode's built in visual diff
Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#39I've been using Meld since years ago, and it's my default go-to diff viewer. The visual style they implemented helps me a lot to reason about how lines have been added or deleted from documents in the side by side comparison. Very neat! The directory contents tree diff is also really useful. I wish they made it even easier the basic case of comparing aribtrary text. Maybe it should be the default mode after opening t…
Meld already supports text filters!
Yes! There are text filters but those are kind of a static setting, found somewhere in the Preferences menu. When I wrote my comment I had in mind some user input that could be more interactive for one off, line based filtering. Although you are right, the already existing filter settings can be used for what I said, if one already has a regex that works fine for the current text being compared.
Re: Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
#40As a long time Sublime Text[1] user, I've been using Sublime Merge[2] since the day it's been launched and it brings me the same speed and minimalism I get with Sublime Text and has evolved quite a lot to be able to do most things I need in a merge tool.
Not affiliated with them in any way by the way.
[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/ [2] https://www.sublimemerge.com/