From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:28:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)
Message-ID: <20070927222825.GG12427@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To: <20070927222326.GB8688@thunk.org>

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:23:26PM +0000, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:11:25PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > > >   And as none of the other merge tool that are supported are able to
> > > > either do 3way merges, or have a decent UI (that definitely seems to be
> > > > exclusive features) I've given up on git-mergetool (and to be fair, it
> > > > sucks, because it could be _sooo_ useful sometimes).
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > What about meld? That does 3-way merge, and the UI is fine.
> > 
> >   Indeed, it seems that since the last time I tested it, it now does
> > diff3 merging. I should reevaluate it :)
> 
> Pierre,
> 
> FYI, kdiff3, meld, xxdiff, opendiff (on MacOSX), and emerge all
> support 3-way merge.

  I know, but:
  * kdiff3 often take decisions behind your back, and results in broken
    merges, so it's a no-go ;
  * xxdiff has (IMHO) a very bad and non-intuitive UI, I never get to
    make it work ;
  * I don't use macos (opendiff) ;
  * emerge is emacs right ? :)

  Though I gave meld another chance, and it works really better than it
used to, so I may give it a try :) Let's hope I won't be disappointed by
meld :)

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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