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From: Vladan B. <vb...@ie...> - 2005-09-26 09:17:56
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Joachim Eibl wrote: > The project is not dead. I'm even working on bugfixes and new features > currently. But this is a spare time project and feature requests are coming > in much faster than I can implement them. Patches on the other hand are very > seldom. Hi, I too have some feature requests for you :-) But first, let me say that I rally appreciate the work you have done on kdiff3. It is the best 3-way merge tool around and it has been a real time saver for me. Here are a few features that would be very useful to me: 1) Postprocessor commands: Right now it's possible to pre-process files before merging them (with a warning), but it's impossible to post-process the result. Specifically I often have to merge Delphi 4 sources, which uses binary files for describing forms (.dfm files). These files can be converted to/from text with external tools, but it would be nice if I could convert them to text before merging and back to binary when writing the result. 2) Make the 'Goto next delta' button configurable when doing a 3-way merge of a file. I would like to be able to skip certain types of differences. For example, I often have to merge differences between A and B into C. In this case I am not interested in the deltas where A and B are equal and C is different (where A and B have purple color). 3) The possibility to manually align the lines. Sometimes the line matching algorithm aligns the files badly at certain points. I would like to be able to tell it which lines should be aligned. > Please don't be too disappointed if your particulary needed features didn't > make it into the next version. Probably available this autumn. I won't. If the features were *that* important, I would have implemented them myself ;-) Keep up the good work and thanks again. -- Vladan Bato vb...@ie... |