Meld 3.12.3 released, An Open Source software project that provides a diff and merge tool for the GNOME desktop environment
Meld 3.12.3 released, An Open Source software project that provides a diff and merge tool for the GNOME desktop environment
Meld is an open source piece of software designed from the ground up to act as a visual diff and merge utility that integrates well with a wide range of Concurrent Versions Systems (CVS). It is distributed along with the GNOME desktop environment, installable as a standalone application
Requirements
- Python 2.7 (Python 3 not yet supported)
- GTK+ 3.6 (3.12 in development)
- GLib 2.34 (2.36 in development)
- PyGObject 3.8
- GtkSourceView 3.6 (3.10 in development)
Features at a glance
Key features include the ability to edit files in-place, perform two-way and three-way merge and diff operations, view comparison updates on the fly, support for syntax highlighting, built-in regular expression text filtering functionality, as well as support for navigating between merges and diffs.
In addition, it lets the user to view local and global differences with changes, conflicts and insertions marked, compare two or three folders using the file-by-file method, manage files, filter out folders and files, and merge and visualize independent changes of a single file.
Another interesting feature is the built-in support for a plethora of version control systems, among which we can mention the popular Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and Bazaar. Also, the program includes basic version control actions and a command-line interface.
In addition, it lets the user to view local and global differences with changes, conflicts and insertions marked, compare two or three folders using the file-by-file method, manage files, filter out folders and files, and merge and visualize independent changes of a single file.
Another interesting feature is the built-in support for a plethora of version control systems, among which we can mention the popular Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and Bazaar. Also, the program includes basic version control actions and a command-line interface.
What's New in This Release:
- Fixes:
- Fix inconsistent file chooser when cancelling file selection (Kai Willadsen)
- UTF-8 encode patches created from the patch dialog (Kai Willadsen)
- Fix text-wrapping reset caused by the commit dialog (Kai Willadsen)
- Fix text background display on certain themes (Kai Willadsen)
- Fix for launching Meld with certain Git environment variables (Kai Willadsen)
- Add GTK's settings.ini file for font blurriness fix on Windows (Kai Willadsen)
