Merge Tool

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

Using Tortoise SVN (quite happily) at work for the past while. The standard diff/merge tools can be a little annoying (at first), so I did some searching.

WinMerge, to the rescue.
http://winmerge.org/

It has extensions for SVN and CVS. Its simple, and free. Just thought I’d share the wealth.

B.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that Jediboy may well use in next project.

I had some difficulties with toroise comparison / merge when I first used it. Had tags with "mine" and "theirs" in the saved file rather than the corresponding code sometimes when merging. Figured out what I was doing wrong fairly quickly though.

Tortoise looks quite similar to WinMerge. What are the advantages you found?

[Anonymous]

I found the fact that you can open directories, in a "Left" and "Right" fashion, and get a simple summary via the comparison result tab.

Also being able to filter by extension for the type of files to diff is handy (*.inl, *.h, *.cpp)

Also from the directory comparison you can go through each file and through the context menu view the diffs of each file.

And then there is a few features in the UI, like "copy all left" (or right), and next diff, and getting the exact diff per line.

I know this all sounds trivial.

I just found this a simple (and free) tool that addressed some of the pain points I had with Tortoise (which is still great in my book.)

David:
If I think of anything else, I’ll let you know.

[Anonymous]

No, sounds good. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Not free; but it does exactly what it says on the tin.

http://www.araxis.com

[Anonymous]

SocksUp:

Thanks for the link.
I’ll give those applications a go.

Before I got MS Project, I was using Open WorkBench (free) as a project management tool, and for a free product, it was alright.

But Ketura looks interesting, (even at $300, its still $200 cheaper than Project…)

thanks.

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