Meld : Diff and merge tool.

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About

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically). You can compare two or three folders and launch file comparisons. You can browse and view a working copy from popular version control systems such such as CVS, Subversion, Bazaar-ng and Mercurial. Look at the screenshots page for more detailed features.

User Comments

Meld is everthing that source control GUIs should have been but never were! Anonymous

I downloaded Meld today and due to it I managed to identify and fix a long standing crasher bug that had been introduced into librsvg CVS. Thanks for this wonderful tool :) Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller

I'm loving the new Meld, my branch merge was easier then ever today. Ross Burton

I've just downloaded and used your Meld diff tool. I have to say it really is an excellent piece of work. I've only used it to do a quick diff between two directories that I was trying to sync up, but it saved me a lot of time and effect doing it by hand. Jon Mitchell

First, I wanted to say thank you for creating a great app, I use it all the time. Daniel Brodie

I just thought I'd let you know that Meld has improved the quality of my life as a (Free) software developer. Thank you! Jason Hildebrand

I checked out Meld [...]. Wow, no looking back. Demian Turner

News

1.3 released! Many cleanups and UI enhancements. (2009-04-17)
Meld development moves to Git along with the rest of Gnome. (2009-04-17)
1.2.1 released! Minor feature enhancements. (2008-11-23)
1.2 released! Update for version control argument changes. Small UI fixes. (2008-06-26)
1.1.5 released! Update for version control argument changes. Small UI fixes. (2007-06-09)
1.1.4 released! Refresh and reload buttons. Ignore symlinks option. (2006-06-10)
1.1.3 released! Version control updates. Word wrap works better. (2006-01-29)
1.1.2 released! Bzr support! (2005-11-09)
1.1.1 released. The prettiest diff ever (2005-10-26)
1.0.0 released. (2005-07-01)
GtkSourceView is now part of gnome-python-extras. Use package or pygtksourceview to enable syntax highlighting. (2005-06-20)
Beta2 0.9.6 released. Minor bugfixes. (2005-05-18)
Meld now has a mailing list.
Beta 0.9.5 released. Minor bugfixes. Adds docbook user guide (2005-02-03)
Use pygtksourceview for syntax highlighting. (2004-08-03)
Beta 0.9.4 released. Adds ignore blank lines and ignore regular expression support. (2004-07-15)
Meld bugtracking moved to Gnome Bugzilla (2003-12-21)
If command line arguments don't work with your distros package of meld, ensure that the wrapper script has a line like "exec /path/to/meld $*", not "exec /path/to/meld". (2004-06-03)
Beta 0.9.3 released. Adds subversion support, syntax highlighting and line numbers.
Beta 0.9.2.1 released. Adds many translations, usability improvements, better install process.
Maintainer needed for PySourceView PySourceView is a python wrapper of gtksourceview. update: now part of gnome-python-extras(2004-01-14)
Meld CVS moved to gnome server. This will allow easier access to translators (2003-12-21)
Inline differences added to CVS. (2003-12-14)
Meld up to 300 times faster for large files with python2.3 due to speedups in difflib. (2003-12-13)
Meld in Japanese! thanks to Takeshi Aihana. (2003-11-28)
Beta 0.9.1 released. Adds complete i18n support and usability improvements. (2003-11-22)
Translators needed! Mail the gnome translation team. (2003-10-29)
Beta 0.9.0 released. Add user editable regex filters and new prefs. (2003-10-12)
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Developers

Patches welcome! Please attach them to the relevant issue in bugzilla. You can use the mailing list to discuss ideas or look for suggestions.

Requirements

See Installation
python2.4 or higher. (SVN version). v1.2.1 requires some minor patches from the mailing list to work with python2.4.)
pygtk2.8 or higher
gnomevfs
optionally gtksourceview for highlighting