Sunday, February 13, 2011

What are the alternatives for meld (graphical diff tool) on OSX

I mostly develop on Linux and meld is indispensable for me. However, when I'm on the road I use a MacBook (leopard) and I want to use the same set of tools as on my main development box, meld being one of them.

Although you shoud be able to install meld, I could not succeed with it. So... are there any alternatives that are as good (or better) as meld?

One thing to point out, I use subversion and I just love the 'meld .' command that diffs my working directory to the BASE revision...

Johan

  • Have you tried http://meld.darwinports.com/?

    If you post some of the troubles you're having getting Meld working on OS X then we could help you out? :o)

    Johan : When I tried to install meld, I got some major errors on the dependencies. Next I installed the dependencies manually. This approach worked... port deactivate intltool port install intltool port install python25 port install py25-gtk port install py25-gnome port install rarian port install meld
    Andrew : Cool, thanks for letting us know you got it sorted :o)
    From Andrew
  • There's FileMerge.app, which comes with XCode.

    From Menkboy
  • Apple's FileMerge (which is included in their Developer Tools download) looks similar to Meld, though I confess to not having used either..

    From Andrew
  • BBEdit has a good diff viewer in it.

  • Fink has a meld package.

    From dmckee
  • Take a look at Changes.app. Yes, it is for pay, but it's very capable, fast, easy on the eyes. It also has a command line tool. Take a look at the wiki for tips and tricks, especially with getting it to integrate with version control systems. I love Changes.app.

    From danimal
  • Sourcegear DiffMerge is free and completely cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux). I've only used the Windows version, and it lacks some more advanced features (like syntax highlighting and opening .diff files) but I'm very happy with it.

    From alastairs
  • KDiff is cross platform, open source, and has an OSX binary available.

    http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/

    From Brad Parks

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