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I mostly develop on Linux and meld is indispensable for me. However, when I'm on the road I use a MacBook (leopard) and I want to use the same set of tools as on my main development box, meld being one of them.
Although you shoud be able to install meld, I could not succeed with it. So... are there any alternatives that are as good (or better) as meld?
One thing to point out, I use subversion and I just love the 'meld .' command that diffs my working directory to the BASE revision...
Johan
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WinMerge is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Meld, which is both free and Open Source.
Go to https://yousseb.github.io/meld/ Download DMG file you prefer (e.g. "Download latest DMG" https://github.com/yousseb/meld/releases/download/osx-6/meldmerge.dmg) Install it to your Applications folder.
To start a comparison, click the File module and select your files from Finder. Meld will display them side-by-side. Any differences between them appear highlighted to make individual changes easier to see.
If you start Meld from the command line, you can tell it what to do when it starts. For a two- or three-way file comparison, start Meld with meld file1 file2 or meld file1 file2 file3 respectively. For a two- or three-way directory comparison, start Meld with meld dir1 dir2 or meld dir1 dir2 dir3.
There's FileMerge.app, which comes with XCode.
It can be run as a separate standalone application :
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Apple's FileMerge (which is included in their Developer Tools download) looks similar to Meld, though I confess to not having used either..
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Sourcegear DiffMerge is free and completely cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux). I've only used the Windows version, and it lacks some more advanced features (like syntax highlighting and opening .diff files) but I'm very happy with it.
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