Any idea of reasonable kdiff3 replacement (ubuntu removed kdiff3)

Hans Meine meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Thu Nov 13 04:35:02 CST 2008


On Wednesday 12 November 2008 23:46:27 Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> Unpleasant surprise after I upgraded Ubuntu to 8.10 - kdiff3 is gone
> (as a victim of upgrade to KDE4). I tried compiling it myself and "stable"
> version refuses to compile while svn version crashes while starting (maybe
> some my mistake but I have no idea what to change).
> So, in short, Ubuntu 8.10 = no kdiff3.
>
> Mercurial pops up meld which is undocumented (at least with respect to
> 3-way merge) and unintuitive.

Some hg wiki pages pointed me to xxdiff, which I have become very happy with.  
(It's a qt3 program.)  It seems to outperform all other programs I know w.r.t. 
merge support.

Just my 2 cents,
  Hans


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