Meld 3.15.0

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Meld 3.15.0 has been released, and is now available at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/meld/3.15/meld-3.15.0.tar.xz

 

 

Features

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* New API for version control plugins with more consistent interfaces and

data structures across different plugins, enabling many minor

improvements (Kai Willadsen)

* Support the conflict resolution prompt in file comparisons for all VCs

* Improve caching behaviour for some version control plugins

* Better sensitivity handling for version control actions

* Cache and show more metadata (e.g., file renames)

* Several version control plugins have not been ported to the new API; the

current list of support plugins is: Git, Mercurial, Subversion 1.7+,

Bazaar

* Faster rendering in file comparison view, enabled by new GtkTextView API

(Kai Willadsen)

* Move to using GtkSourceView style schemes with Meld-specific colour tags

for highlight colours; this lets themes include colours that match the

sourceview theme (Kai Willadsen)

* Offer to open binary files externally (Pratik Dayama)

* Show the common ancestor in conflicting regions (and the merged file

everywhere else) when viewing conflicts through Meld's version control

view; currently this is only supported under Git (Kai Willadsen)

* Support showing staged/partially staged status of files under Git (Kai

Willadsen)

* Update preferences dialog to new style with headerbar (Kai Willadsen)

 

 

Fixes

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* Documentation updates (Andrew Beyer)

* Fix crash with some GTK+ versions when using --output (Kai Willadsen)

* Fix merge-all action not working at all (Kai Willadsen)

* Fix creating patches with unicode path names (Kai Willadsen)

* Fix copy-to-clipboard option in patch dialog (Kai Willadsen)

* Fix diffmap alignment for new GTK+ allocation behaviour (Kai Willadsen)

* Improve float accuracy in folder comparison timestamp resolution (Kai

Willadsen)

* Fix default SVN keyword filter to escape $ characters (Kai Willadsen)

* Fix display of unicode --help from command line (Kai Willadsen)

* Fix keyboard shortcut docs (Kai Willadsen)

* Don't incorrectly show identical notification for changed folder

comparisons (Kai Willadsen)

Internal changes:

* Requirements are now GTK+ 3.14, GtkSourceView 3.14 and GLib 2.36

* Rewritten version control plugin API

* Unified colour handling between linkmap, diffmap and file comparison

* Move all textview drawing to a new GtkSourceView subclass, using the new

GTK+ draw-layer API

 

 

Translations

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* Daniel Mustieles (es)

* Gábor Kelemen (hu)

* Jiri Grönroos (fi)

* Josef Andersson (sv)

* Marek Černocký (cs)

* Piotr Drąg (pl)

 

 

What is Meld?

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Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. It lets you compare two or three files,

and updates the comparisons while you edit them in-place. You can also compare

folders, launching comparisons of individual files as desired. Last but by no

means least, Meld lets you work with your current changes in a wide variety of

version control systems, including Git, Bazaar, Mercurial and Subversion.

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