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BASH: Open FileMerge from CLI | Comments (2)

Posted in Snippets on 16th August 2007, 1:07 pm by Stuart

Here’s a quick tip. If you want to open FileMerge (Apples graphical diff utility available in developer tools) from the CLI you can use the command opendiff e.g: opendiff file1 file2 This save lots of hassle when you are trying to resolve versioning conflicts, as I always find it annoying trying to navigate to the right files from the gui.

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1. On September 4th, 2007 at 1:31 pm Ben Ward said:

So, whilst this should be an exercise for the reader, what we’d want is an alias to act like this:

bzrmerge path/to/file.ex

Automatically open FileMerge and fill in the .THIS, .OTHER and .BASE files for us.

Must. Learn. Bash.

2. On September 4th, 2007 at 2:39 pm Stuart Colville said:

That would be pretty easy; add to .bashrc:

function bzrdiff {
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
cat <<-END
        Usage: bzrdiff file
        Will automatically compare file.OTHER and file.THIS
END
else
  opendiff $1.OTHER $1.THIS -ancestor $1.BASE
fi
}

remember to source ~/.bashrc for changes to take effect.







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