Hi Steve,

Just to clarify, Kaleidoscope does not merge. It only displays
differences between files - beautifully I might add. But no merging in
Kaleidoscope.

- Charles

On Jan 10, 6:32 pm, Steve M <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

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