meld - Visual diff and merge tool for the GNOME Desktop
meld [options] meld [options] FILE1 meld [options] DIR1 meld [options] FILE1 FILE2 [FILE3] meld [options] DIR1 DIR2 [DIR3]
MELD(1) General Commands Manual MELD(1) NAME meld - Visual diff and merge tool for the GNOME Desktop SYNOPSIS meld [options] meld [options] FILE1 meld [options] DIR1 meld [options] FILE1 FILE2 [FILE3] meld [options] DIR1 DIR2 [DIR3] DESCRIPTION Meld is a graphical diff viewer and merge application for the GNOME desktop. It supports 2 and 3-file diffs, recursive directory diffs, diffing of directories under version control (Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Fos- sil, Git, Mercurial, Monotone), as well as the ability to manually and automatically merge file differences. OPTIONS --auto-compare, -a Automatically compare all differing files on startup. --auto-merge Automatically merge files --comparison-file=<file> Load a saved comparison from a Meld comparison file --diff FILE1|DIR1 FILE2|DIR2 [FILE3|DIR3] Create a diff tab for the given files or directories. Note that "meld --diff FILE1 FILE2" is functionally equivalent to "meld FILE1 FILE2". However, the --diff argument can be given multi- ple times for one invocation of meld which allows the user to automatically initiate multiple diffs when meld starts. See examples below. --help, -h Print application help and usage. --label=<label>, -L <label> Set application window title to <label>. --newtab, -n Open the comparison as a new tab in an already-running instance. --output, -o Sets the save path for the middle buffer in a three-pane merge view. This is useful for loading the middle buffer from one file and saving it to another, for example in use as a version con- trol merge helper. --unified, -u Ignored for compatibility --version Print application version and exit. EXAMPLES meld Run meld without initiating a diff. meld FILE1 Initiate a diff between FILE1 and the version-controlled copy of FILE1. meld DIR1 Initiate a recursive diff between DIR1 and the version-con- trolled copy of DIR1. meld FILE1 FILE2 Initiate a diff between FILE1 and FILE2. meld FILE1 FILE2 FILE3 Initiate a 3-way diff between FILE1, FILE2, and FILE3. meld DIR1 DIR2 Initiate a recursive diff between directory DIR1 and DIR2. meld DIR1 DIR2 DIR3 Initiate a recursive 3-way diff between directory DIR1, DIR2, and DIR3. meld --diff FILE1 FILE2 --diff FILE3 FILE4 Initiate a diff between FILE1 and FILE2, and a separate diff between FILE3 and FILE4. BUGS If you find a bug, please report it at https://git- lab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/issues or mail a description of the issue to meld-list@gnome.org. AUTHORS See the AUTHORS text file in meld's source code (http://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/tree/AUTHORS). ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | developer/meld | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+------------------+ NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://down- load.gnome.org/sources/meld/3.21/meld-3.21.1.tar.xz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://meldmerge.org/. 26 Sept 2010 MELD(1)