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Meld for OSX

This is a fork of Meld packaged and bundled for OSX. The original website for Meld is here http://meldmerge.org. Minor work has been done to also integrate OSX menu and shortcuts, but the app is truly the original, excellent Meld.

Download OSX dmg file

You may download any of the following versions. The 3.21.0 (r2) is the latest and the recommended version at this point.

  • Version 3.21.0 (r2) Latest (Catalina & Mojave)
  • Version 3.19.2 (r5) (Mojave & High Sierra)
  • Version 3.19.2 (r3) (Mojave & High Sierra)
  • Version 3.19.0 (r1) (Previous stable version - High Sierra)
  • Version 3.16.0 (r1) (Not for High Sierra)
  • Version 3.15.4 (r2) (Not for High Sierra)
  • Version 3.15.2 (r2) (Not for High Sierra)
  • Version 3.13.4 (Not for High Sierra)
  • Version 1.8 (Not for High Sierra)

Tip: A lot of people are asking how to use this package as a git difftool/mergetool.Once installed, edit your ~/.gitconfig and add the following lines

Tip:Meld OSX also understands/checks for the following environment variables.

The theme change can be done by changing the variable in the wrapper script

find the part that says

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and change it to

and you'll have a fully dark meld..

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Why Meld for Mac/OSX and not Macports/Homebrew

Top reasons behind using this fork over Macports or Homebrew builds:

  • Retina support (check the screenshot!)
  • Latest 3.x series
  • No hassle install (drag/drop like any other app)
  • Integrates with OSX menu
  • Supports standard OSX shortcuts (cmd-c/cmd-v instead of ctrl) (Merged to upstream)
  • Note: Homebrew now installs Meld for OSX

Screenshot

Special Thanks

  • To Kai Willadsen http://meldmerge.org/ for creating Meld.
  • To the Gnome project https://www.gnome.org/
  • To Alex Kras whose web page (How To Run Meld on Mac OS X Yosemite Without Homebrew, MacPorts, or Think) served as my reference for tracking Meld for OSX usage and issues when I had absolutely no time to maintain this.

TODO

  • Get rid of the Meld wrapper shell script (this should get rid of all the wrappers needed to run Meld from the terminal)
  • Support Meld localizations (currently only English works)

Suggestions / Issues

If you have a suggestion or you are facing an issue running this Meld fork, please open an issue here https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues. Please note that your issue has to be specific to the OSX fork and not to Meld itself. I have no plans/time to work on Meld itself.

Contribute to Meld for OSX

  1. Head to https://github.com/yousseb/meld
  2. Fork the repository and clone your fork locally.
  3. Follow the build instructions in https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/README.md to generate your own dmg.
  4. Do your magic, commit and push to your fork.
  5. Create a pull request.

Not Accepting Donations

I'm not currently accepting donations for the development of this fork. I just missed a proper implementation of Meld on Mac so I thought of creating this fork. If you want to donate, please donate to the original Meld project.

The following is copied from the original Meld page http://meldmerge.org/. Please visit the original project website for more info. For the full help manual, please visit http://meldmerge.org/help/.

What is Meld?

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems.

Meld helps you review code changes and understand patches. It might even help you to figure out what is going on in that merge you keep avoiding.

Features

  • Two- and three-way comparison of files and directories
  • File comparisons update as you type
  • Auto-merge mode and actions on change blocks help make merges easier
  • Visualisations make it easier to compare your files
  • Supports Git, Bazaar, Mercurial, Subversion, etc.
  • …and more

Meld is licensed under the GPL v2, except as noted

In depth features

File comparison

  • Edit files in-place, and your comparison updates on-the-fly
  • Perform two- and three-way diffs and merges
  • Easily navigate between differences and conflicts
  • Visualise global and local differences with insertions, changes and conflicts marked
  • Use the built-in regex text filtering to ignore uninteresting differences
  • Syntax highlighting

Directory comparison

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  • Compare two or three directories file-by-file, showing new, missing, and altered files
  • Directly open file comparisons of any conflicting or differing files
  • Filter out files or directories to avoid seeing spurious differences
  • Simple file management is also available

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Version control

  • Meld supports many version control systems, including Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and SVN
  • Launch file comparisons to check what changes were made, before you commit
  • View file versioning statuses
  • Simple version control actions are also available (i.e., commit/update/add/remove/delete files)

Merge mode (in development)

  • Automatically merge two files using a common ancestor
  • Mark and display the base version of all conflicting changes in the middle pane
  • Visualise and merge independent modifications of the same file
  • Lock down read-only merge bases to avoid mistakes
  • Command line interface for easy integration with existing tools, including git mergetool

While our focus at Phoronix is on testing hardware under Linux, we remain friendly and interested in other BSD and UNIX operating systems too, including Mac OS X. With the launch of Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' we have been particularly interested in it considering the technological advancements that have been made in this update thanks to their large focus on improving the performance of Mac OS X. With that said, we have spent all week working on a grand Mac OS X benchmarking showdown by comparing the performance of the retail build of Mac OS X 10.6.0 to the earlier Mac OS X 10.5.8 through a number of different quantitative tests. We firmly believe that as of right now these are the most detailed desktop performance numbers available concerning Snow Leopard, but we already have more figures on the way. We have performance numbers from not just one Mac computer, but two different setups. Here's to the first 60+ tests we ran!

The stated goals for Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' have been on improving performance, efficiency, and lowering the overall memory footprint of this operating system. With these performance tuning efforts, Apple has dropped support for the older PowerPC-based Apple computers and are now focusing strictly on Intel-based hardware and optimizing for x86_64-capable processors. Snow Leopard brings full 64-bit support both in the kernel and for their user-space applications, except for a few that are not yet ported like iTunes and QuickTime. The 64-bit addressing support alone should yield a nice performance boost, but greater performance gains in Mac OS X 10.6 can to a large extent be attributed to Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) and OpenCL.

Apple's Grand Central Dispatch is designed to deliver better desktop performance through improving parallel programming on Mac OS X with multi-core processors by making it easier on developers and on the operating system by handling the thread management and ensuring all CPU jobs are distributed across the available computing cores. Xcode in Mac OS X 10.6 has also received more work to LLVM (the Low-Level Virtual Machine) and Clang, as an alternative to the GNU Compiler Collection.

We have talked about OpenCL before as its an industry standard and Apple is one of the large companies involved in its creation, but besides appearing in a NVIDIA Linux driver, Mac OS X 10.6 will be one of the first places to find the Open Computing Language in action. The specifications to OpenCL 1.0 were released last year and the graphics card manufacturers in particular have been busy working on implementing this support within their drivers to exploit their massively powerful capabilities. However, this OpenCL support on Mac OS X is only available to those with an ATI/AMD or NVIDIA graphics processor and not the Mac computers with Intel integrated graphics.

Beyond overhauling the performance of Mac OS X when at the desktop, Snow Leopard is also much faster at starting up and shutting down. Apple has been claiming this for a while and even to the magnitude of waking up twice as fast and nearly the same speed in shutting down, and we have confirmed it in our tests. When installed, Mac OS X 10.6 also takes up at least 7GB less space than did Mac OS X 10.5.

While what we are looking at is strictly the Mac OS X performance, Snow Leopard does bring some other refinements too like support for the Microsoft Exchange Server, improvements to its Time Machine software, a more advanced Finder, QuickTime X, the CUPS 1.4 printing server, changes to the Stacks and Dock icons, and other alterations.

Well, that is our synopsis on the technology changes to be found in Mac OS X 10.6. Of course, this is quite brief since we are just focused on the numbers, but for more information on Snow Leopard check out the Apple Developer Connection and their technology page. Now let's get to some animal benchmarking!