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DESCRIPTION
Araxis Merge... The two and three-way visual file comparison/merging and folder synchronization application. Use it to compare, understand and combine different versions of source code, web pages and other text files, or even text copied and pasted from another application (e.g. Pages or Microsoft Word). Merge integrates with Time Machine, so you can compare older versions of files.

Merge is a compelling choice for software developers, lawyers, product release managers, web designers and other professionals who work with multiple revisions of text files, including ASCII, MBCS and Unicode files. Merge integrates with many version control (VC) and software configuration management (SCM) systems (e.g. Subversion and Perforce) that allow a third-party comparison/merging tool to be specified.

For legal professionals: instantly identify every change by copying text from different contract drafts being edited in another application (such as Microsoft Word) and pasting it directly into a file comparison window. Many more features.

This is the version of Araxis Merge for Mac OS X ‘Leopard’. A ‘Tiger’ version (Mac OS X 10.4.11 and later) is also available on the Araxis website.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2009.3793:
  • Merge is now fully compatible with Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard. [I11260, I11223]
  • Support for Finder integration on 64-bit Macs running Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard has been added via the system-supplied Services menu. This is explained further in the new topic, Integration with Finder. [I11172, I11292, I11300]
  • When Merge is configured to use tabs within a single top-level window, there is now a drop-down menu in the tab strip that can be used to select any of the open tabs. [I11088]
  • For folder comparisons, a sub-menu has been added to the drop-down menu on the Preferences toolbar button for selecting different filters. [I11142]
  • The performance of find and replace operations within a text comparison has been improved in certain circumstances. [I11261]
  • Additional information is now passed to external file filter programs. For more information, see the File Types topic. [I11165]
  • The command line compare utility is now able to compare files located directly within a Subversion repository. [I11205]
  • The Frequently Asked Questions list has been updated with information concerning the limitations of the text extraction filters for Microsoft Excel files. [I11100]
  • Bug fixes
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5.1 or later.
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Developer:Araxis Ltd.
Downloads:3,324
  - Version d/l:566
Utilities:File Management
License:Demo
Date:13 Oct 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$129.00
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*****

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Apr 4 2008
*****

SEMIOTICMONKEY  Features wise, it beats them all. Nothing compare.

Kudos to the Devs to build a native OSX version well tought and tailored to the Mac GUI and workflow (compare it to the Win version to see how they have choosed differents paths for the Mac version to make it fit nicely to the OS).

The price is truly too high alas. A 'express' (not so stripped, tought) version in a more affordable price tag would appeals more customer and spread the brand and the use of it and challenge Filemerge users like me.

ps. And a TextMate bundle would be a nice touch.

I don't buy it cause it is, as already said, overpriced. Your opinion may differ. Try it.  
(Version 2008.3487)

praisebury
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Oct 13 2009
*****

ESPIRIDION  Indeed there are cheaper alternatives out there, and some are even free.

Having said that, I'm glad I purchased Merge. Customer support is impressive, and the application has saved me enormous amounts of time.

I just did a brief test with DiffMerge, since it is one of the free alternatives. I compared 2 files. One of them had 5 changes.

DiffMerge identified blank spaces I added. Merge did not.

DiffMerge did not support drag and drop of the files. Merge did making the work flow faster.

DiffMerge would not compare the files initially, since one was xml and the other txt. Merge compared them.

I then made the txt an xml file in order for DiffMerge to work.

DiffMerge has a single scroll bar. Merge has 2, one for each file.

DiffMerge used 2 colors, black for the whole document and red for the differences. Merge used black plus 4 other colors, making it easy to view different sections and/or type of text.

DiffMerge is definitely not bad, and as mentioned it is free. Replacing text from one file to another is quick and easy. I'm keeping it :-)

I was going to try other applications but did not want to run installers so I skipped them.

This was just a very brief test, focusing on a single feature; comparing 2 files. Araxis Merge is still the one for me. It has many additional features, is very fast, supports a wide variety of file formats, and offers superb customer support.  
(Version 2009.3793)

praisebury
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Mar 11 2008

MARK EVERITT  This is rather expensive! I use Unison which is free and excellent for file synchronisation between two folders on a single computer (you can repeat for more than two etc.) and was designed to synchronise a local folder and a remote folder. I'm not sure how it handles merges though, as I only work on one machine at a time and then synch before switching machines.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Alternatives for merging are command line utilities such as Bazaar (bzr) for version control systems. Bazaar happens to be easy to use too if the command line doesn't scare you.

http://bazaar-vcs.org/  
(Version 2008.3469)

praisebury
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