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Windows; Mac; Linux: 85. You can resolve them by using a merge tool. You can run git mergetool --tool-help to get more details about what tools are supported. You will get an output like the following git mergetool --tool=tool> may be set to one of the following: p4merge tortoisemerge vimdiff vimdiff2 vimdiff3 The following tools are.
- Popular Alternatives to WinMerge for Mac. Explore 23 Mac apps like WinMerge, all suggested and ranked by the AlternativeTo user community. KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which compares and merges two or three text input files or directories, shows the differences line by line.
- Our product is a visual diff tool, merge tool, and folder compare tool that makes comparing and merging sources easy and reliable. Guiffy is used around the world by thousands of professional organizations on a wide variety of platforms (Including: Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and Unix ).
Subversion, Git, Mercurial and others support three-way merges (combining mine, theirs, and the 'base' revision) and support graphical tools to resolve conflicts.
What tool do you use? Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, free or commercial, you name it.
Here's a few that I've used or heard of, just to get the conversation started:
- Beyond Compare Pro.
(I recognize that this is sort of like the Best Diff Tool, but it's different in that I explicitly focus on three-way merge tools; WinMerge is off the list, for example.)
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KDiff3 open source, cross platform
Same interface for Linux and Windows, very smart algorithm for solving conflicts, regular expressions for automatically solving conflicts, integrate with ClearCase, SVN, Git, MS Visual Studio, editable merged file, compare directories
Its keyboard-navigation is great: ctrl-arrows to navigate the diffs, ctrl-1, 2, 3 to do the merging.
Also, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/2434482/42473
Just checked out P4merge since I heard about it in another blog article:
Very slick interface, and FREE! I've been a faithful Araxis Merge user, but considering this is free and awesome, I'd encourage you to check it out.
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Beyond Compare 3 Pro supports three-way merging, and it is a pretty impressive merge tool. It's commercial (but worth it, IMHO) and is available on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
As pointed out in a comment, it's also inexpensive.
Note: If one does not have a merge set, that is, merge markers resident in the destination file, Beyond Compare does not offer three-way file compare/editing. Beyond Compare says that feature is on their list.
Note: 3-way merge is a feature in the Pro edition of Beyond Compare 3 only
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I have had only good experiences working with Meld. I use it when I have to do messy code merges between branches. It is simple to use and has a clean interface.
- Open Source
- Linux, Windows and MacOS Supported
- Multiple File Diff
- Three-way Compare Support
In Ubuntu, install is as simple as:
Jonathan Meesudo apt-get install meld
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vimdiff. It's great. All you need is a window three feet wide.
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Source Gear Diff Merge:
Cross-platform, true three-way merges and it's completely free for commercial or personal usage.
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Araxis Merge. It is commerical, but it is so worth it... It is available for Windows and the Mac OS X.
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Kdiff3 conflict resolution algorithm is really impressive.
Even when subversion indicates a conflict, Kdiff3 solves it automatically. There's versions for Windows and Linux with the same interface. It is possible to integrate it with Tortoise and with your linux shell.
It is in the list of my favorite open source software. One of the first tools I install in any machine.
You can configure it as the default diff tool in Subversion, Git, Mercurial, and ClearCase. It also solves almost all the ClearCase conflicts. In Windows, it has a nice integration with windows explorer: select two files and right click to compare them, or right click to 'save to later' a file, and then select another one to compare.
The merged file is editable. Has slick keyboard shortcuts.
You can also use it compare and merge directories. See:
An advanced feature is to use regular expressions for defining automatic merges.
My only annoyance is that it is a little difficult to compile if it isn't present in your favorite distro repository.
I love Ediff. It comes built-in with GNU Emacs.
To do a three-way diff, use
ediff-files3
(for selecting three files) or ediff-buffer3
(for selecting three already-open buffers). You'll get a screen looking like this:Note the word-difference higlighting.
You can hit
unhammern
or p
to go to the next/previous diffs, while ab
will copy the region from buffer a (the leftmost one) to buffer b (the middle one), and similarly for other two-letter combinations of a
, b
, c
; rb
will restore the region in buffer b. Hit ?
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Ultracompare. It is really good, handles large files (more than 1 GB) well, is available for Windows/Mac/Linux, and it's commercial, but it is worth it.
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Diffuse is an easy to use three-way merge tool. It supports all of the platforms and version control systems you mentioned, and it can compare more than three files at the same time.
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I wrote a review of some merge tools a while back that may be useful: http://www.misuse.org/science/2007/02/24/3-way-merging/
The summary is that I found ECMerge to be a great, though commercial product. http://www.elliecomputing.com/products/merge_overview.asp
I also agree with MrTelly that Ultracompare is very good. One nice feature is that it will compare RTF and Word docs, which is handy when you end up programming in word with the sales guys and they don't manage their docs correctly.
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If you use Apple’s flexible Numbers application as your preferred spreadsheet tool, then there may be a time when you want to merge cells together.
This is a convenient feature for combining column headers, row headers, or other adjacent cells for formatting reasons.
If this is new to you, here’s how to merge and unmerge cells in Numbers on both Mac and iOS.
How to merge cells in Numbers on Mac
Open Numbers and head to the spreadsheet where you want to merge the cells and then follow the steps below.
1)Select the cells you want to merge. Remember, the cells must be next to each other in a column or row. You can select them by clicking the first one and dragging through the rest. Or, by clicking the first cell, holding down the Shift key, and clicking the last cell.
2) Click Table from your menu bar.
3) Select Merge Cells.
OR
2) Hold the Control key while clicking your selected cells.
3) Choose Merge Cells from the context menu.
To unmerge cells in Numbers on Mac, select the merged cell, follow the same Steps 2 and 3 above, and click Unmerge Cells.
How to merge cells in Numbers on iPhone or iPad
Open Numbers and the spreadsheet where you want to merge the cells and then follow these steps.
1)Select the cells you want to merge. Again, the cells must be adjacent. Select them by clicking the first one and dragging your finger through the rest.
2) Tap the green Cell actions button that displays at the bottom.
3) Select Merge Cells.
To unmerge cells in Numbers on iPhone or iPad, select the merged cell, follow the same Steps 2 and 3 directly above, and tap Unmerge Cell.
Wrapping it up
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Merging cells, and even unmerging them if you change your mind, is a quick and easy way to format areas of your spreadsheets. Are there any other tips or tricks for Numbers that you need help with? If so, let us know!