[cw-discuss] Araxis Merge 2007

Sat Jun 16 07:08:20 CDT 2007

On 16.06.2007 05:54, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> Simon Roby wrote:
>> On 6/15/07, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew at pitonyak.org> wrote:
>>> has anyone played around with Araxis Merge 2007?
>>>
>>> I run version 6.5 with no problems, but Merge 2007 crashes as soon as
>>> files are chosen.
>>
>> Aren't there already plenty of good diff/merge GUI tools on Linux? (or
>> Mac?) Like kdiff3 or something similar?
>>
>> I remember an old colleague of mine using Araxis Merge and it seemed
>> pretty ordinary to me. But maybe I'm wrong...
> I was not aware of kdiff3. I installed it and took a look. Not bad. I
> see some really cool features missing from Araxis. It appears, however,
> that Araxis is probably the better program <sad for me>. I don't suppose
> I can use the regular expression stuff to cause runs of white space,
> especially at line starts, to be considered equal.

kdiff3 can do that and even more. You can do full preprocessing of all
files. The preprocessing changes what the internal diffing algorithm
uses, but when displaying you see the original files. See
http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/doc/preprocessors.html for details.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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