I agree that diff/merge was certainly an omission. It was almost a deal-breaker for me to buy Versions. Sofa has taken care of that now, but they did that by adding another product (Kaleidoscope). I don't want to have to buy another product to get a feature that should be built into this one.
Anyway, I use TextWrangler for diff/merge and I'm quite happy with it. Anyone who is struggling with this feature should download and install TextWrangler. It integrates really nicely with Versions and it gets the job done. Apple's FileMerge is part of the Dev Tools (I believe?) so that works fine for Objective-C developers, but web developers running on a Mac may not decide to go that route. On Jan 5, 3:27 pm, Daniel Dickison <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree -- it was useful to see that Cornerstone had gotten a merge > feature. Competition is good and I hope it pressures Sofa to up the > ante. > > On the other hand, I tried the new Cornerstone and fortunately (for > Sofa), I'll be sticking with Versions for now. We have repositories > with hundreds of thousands of files and revisions, and Cornerstone's > fancy timeline view doesn't seem to scale very well for large > histories. Things like viewing the log message and diffs for a > specific revision from 2 years ago is a lot easier to navigate with > Versions. And to do that Versions was using 400MB RAM vs 1.5GB for > Cornerstone. So, hopefully performance is one aspect Versions can > stay on top while adding new features. > > Daniel > > On Jan 3, 3:42 pm, ct-scan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm glad the link to Cornerstone was posted, I've been using Versions > > since the beta, and am getting frustrated that this obvious feature > > still isn't integrated. > > > Maybe instead of additional UI enhancements (like the ones that just > > came out), adding this much requested feature would be better. > > I'd even upgrade to a new version for this feature, with no > > hesitation. I love Versions, but it's just not the most complete tool > > out there. > > I hope they fix this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en.
