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BeyondCompare makes a smart recommendation for how to merge a given conflict that is very often exactly what you want, which means that for many conflicts, you can just confirm the recommendation.The target view is color-coded to show the origin of each line of text: right, left, base or custom edited.The merge view includes a line-by-line differ that shows left, base, right and target lines directly above one another, with a scrollbar for longer lines.
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Each change has its own color, so you can see afterwards whether you took left, right or made manual changes.
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This is helpful if you moved code and want to compare two chunks that the standard diff no longer sees as being comparable You can re-align a diff manually using F7.The intra-line diffing in Beyond Compare is more fine-grained and tends to highlight changes better.It makes it much easier to see whether code or documentation has changed. While both differs have syntax-highlighting (and the supported file-types seem to be about the same), Beyond Compare distinguishes between significant and insignificant (e.g.What's better in Beyond Compare 3? Diffing The difference is still significant enough to justify Beyond Compare's purchase price of $60. The file-differ has gotten a lot better and has almost achieved parity with my favorite diffing/merging tool Beyond Compare. I can search for files and easily get individual logs and blame. It's fast and accurate (I almost never have to refresh explicitly to see changes) and I have a quick overview of the workspace, the index and recent commits. It has a wonderful log view that I now regularly use as my standard view. It not only has a powerful and intuitive UI, it also supports pull requests, including code comments that integrate with BitBucket, GitLab and GitHub, among others. I have been and continue to be a proponent of SmartGit for all Git-related work. A well-rendered log view and overview of branches is indispensable for this kind of work. I tend to manage Git repositories, which means I'm in charge of pruning merged or obsolete branches and making sure that everything is merged. However, if you need an overview or need to more management, then you're going to sacrifice efficiency and possibly correctness if you use only the command line or IDE tools. For this kind of limited workflow, you can get away with a limited tool-set without too big of a safety or efficiency penalty. If you're just developing a single issue at a time and can branch, commit changes and make pull requests with your IDE tools, then more power to you. I've written about using SmartGit (SG) before 1 2 and I still strongly recommend that developers who manage projects use a UI for Git.