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SourceGear release DiffMerge - for free

A good, free, 3-way merging tool is very difficult to come by. Most tools that diff and merge either are not free, or they do not support 3-way merging, or they are simply have limited editing capabilities. Up to now, I have only found one tool that features all of these characteristics. However, SourceGear have now changed that by releasing their DiffMerge tool for free. DiffMerge includes features such as graphical diff, graphical merging between 3 files, folder diff, rulesets per file type and...

Merging for the not so brave

Anyone who is working in a team and using a half-decent version control system will have come across merging. If not, then you've been lucky. Merging conflicting files frustrates many developers. And I reckon that this is because there is a fear that the merge will not be performed properly, resulting in a loss of work. Today I came across the merge from hell. I performed some work for one of my clients, but the work was done against an old version of their source code. When they discovered this...
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