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- Meld
Installing Meld Meld is packaged for most Linux Unix distributions, and is also available on Flathub For installing from source, see the instructions Windows users should download the MSI Meld does not yet support automatic updates or portable installs
- Getting started comparing files
Meld's file comparisons There are several different parts to a file comparison The most important parts are the editors where your files appear In addition to these editors, the areas around and between your files give you a visual overview and actions to help you handle changes between the files
- What is Meld?
Meld is a tool for comparing files and directories, and for resolving differences between them It is also useful for comparing changes captured by version control systems
- Meld Help
Using Meld with Version Control Viewing version-controlled files Flattened view Resolving merge conflicts
- Viewing version-controlled files
Meld integrates with many version control systems to let you review local changes and perform simple version control tasks You can start a new version control comparison using the new comparison button on the toolbar, and clicking on the Version Control tab
- Getting started comparing folders
Meld lets you compare two or three folders side-by-side You can start a new folder comparison using the new comparison button on the toolbar, and clicking on the Directory Comparison tab
- Command line usage - meldmerge. org
If you start Meld from the command line, you can tell it what to do when it starts For a two- or three-way file comparison, start Meld with meld file1 file2 or meld file1 file2 file3 respectively
- Resolving merge conflicts
One of the best uses of Meld is to resolve conflicts that occur while merging different branches For example, when using Git, git mergetool will start a 'merge helper'; Meld is one such helper If you want to make git mergetool use Meld by default, you can add
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