Meld: Nice tool for diffing files and directories

Jul 16, 2017

This isn't really a tutorial but rather a recommendation for a diff tool. Sometimes you need to compare files, or even directories, and doing it manually is just too painful and difficult. I've used Meld many times over the years (mostly on Linux though), and can really recommend it.

Meld can be found at http://meldmerge.org/ and is completely free.

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I'm using B4X strictly for business reasons so I'm very interested in things like these:

Being able to use Mercurial, Git etc
Several developers being able to work in same source
- Keeping everything as text files so diffs and merges work
- Keeping meta-information in its own files to not add noise to "wrong" files in commits (example: which libraries are used could be placed in an libraries.conf file, the files in a files.conf file, and modules in modules.conf)

Making sure environment is predictable and builds are reproducible
- Keeping relevant project settings as text files, in project directory
- Including a Library directory in project directory (wish)

Minimizing the risk for regressions
- Natively support unit tests

Anything that can be used for cross-platform development
(I do however agree that it's not reasonable to have a single source and expect being able to compile to any B4X platform - the differences are too many)

As time permits I plan to add to this list, and post wishes for all that B4X currently doesn't have. I've added links to the ones where I've already posted a wish.

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