Meld is a graphical diff and merge application for inspecting changes across files, folders and version-controlled projects. Its side-by-side interface is designed to make edits, conflicts and related change blocks easier to follow without switching between separate tools.
Comparisons can involve two or three files or directories. Meld also gives repository users a visual way to inspect working-tree changes before committing and to deal with merges launched from version-control tooling.
Text filtering, syntax-aware editing and change navigation help keep attention on meaningful differences rather than surrounding noise.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Compare, edit and merge files with live comparison updates.
- Navigate directly between changes and operate on individual change blocks.
- Perform two- and three-way comparisons and use merge assistance for conflicts.
- Display the base version during three-way conflict resolution.
- Compare directory trees and identify missing or modified files.
- Drill down from a folder comparison into a detailed file comparison.
- Ignore selected files, folders or text patterns when they are not relevant.
- Work with Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Subversion repositories.
- Inspect version-control states and perform common actions including commit and push.
- Integrate with external workflows such as
git mergetool. - Offers internationalisation support.
Website: meldmerge.org
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Developer: Kai Willadsen
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Meld is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
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|---|---|
| Meld | Graphical diff viewer and merge application for the Gnome desktop |
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| Diffuse | Tool for merging and comparing text files |
| TkDiff | Graphical front end to the diff program |
| objdiff | Local diffing tool for decompilation project |
| KDiff3 | Text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files |
| xxdiff | File and directories comparator and merge tool |
| RustDiff | Semantic JSON and XML diff tool |
| RCompare | File and directory comparison toolkit |
| Text Compare | Compare old and new text |
| Image Compare | Side-by-side image comparison tool for spotting differences |
| gap | Simple native graphical utility for comparing text files |
| meld-rs | Visual diff and merge tool for comparing files and directories |
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