You can start it from the command line and pass in a single file you want to Clean UI and very straight-forward, plus it's highly customizable. I don't even use it as an editor or IDE anymore, just for working with git. You can edit the code directly or there are buttons to use whichever version of that snippet you want. Personally, I've found Atom to be a great tool for visualizing differences and conflict resolution/merging.Īs for merging, there aren't three views but it's all combined into one with colored highlighting for each version. I've tried a lot of the tools mentioned here and none of them have quite been what I'm looking for. Two base, two changes, and one resulting merge. PS: If one tool one day supports 5 views merging, this would really be awesome, because if you cherry-pick commits in Git you really have not one base but two. This makes merging somewhat harder in complex cases.

The merge view (see screenshot) has only 3 panes, just like SourceGear Diff/Merge.

So you can have some history diff on all files much simpler. Meld is a newer free tool that I'd prefer to SourceGear Diff/Merge: Now it's also working on most platforms (Windows/Linux/Mac) with the distinct advantage of natively supporting some source control like Git. Check that merge screens-shot and you'll see it's has the 3 views at least. SourceGear Diff/Merge may be my second free tool choice. Perforce tries to make it a bit hard to get their tool without their client. You cannot edit manually the files and you cannot manually align. My main disappointement with that tool is its kind of 'read-only' interface. The Perforce Visual Client ( P4V) is a free tool that provides one of the most explicit interface for merging (see some screenshots). It has many features like advanced rules, editions, manual alignment. It integrates with many source control and works on Windows/Linux. It's somewhat less visual than P4V but way more than WinDiff. The good thing with its merge is that it let you see all 4 views: base, left, right, and merged result. Beyond Compare 3, my favorite, has a merge functionality in the Pro edition.

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