This is a fork of Meld packaged and bundled for OSX. The original website for Meld is here http://meldmerge.org. Minor work has been done to also integrate OSX menu and shortcuts, but the app is truly the original, excellent Meld.
Download OSX dmg file
You may download any of the following versions. The 3.21.0 (r2) is the latest and the recommended version at this point.
Homepage for Meld macOS port. Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems such as git, mercurial and others. Using Meld merging tool on Mac brew tap homebrew/cask brew cask install meld If meld doesn't start while executing from terminal, try this: Modify the /usr/local/Caskroom/meld/3.19.2-r6,osx-15/meld.wrapper.sh script installed by brew to the following.
Version 3.21.0 (r2) Latest (Catalina & Mojave)
Version 3.19.2 (r5) (Mojave & High Sierra)
Version 3.19.2 (r3) (Mojave & High Sierra)
Version 3.19.0 (r1) (Previous stable version - High Sierra)
Version 3.16.0 (r1) (Not for High Sierra)
Version 3.15.4 (r2) (Not for High Sierra)
Version 3.15.2 (r2) (Not for High Sierra)
Version 3.13.4 (Not for High Sierra)
Version 1.8 (Not for High Sierra)
Tip: A lot of people are asking how to use this package as a git difftool/mergetool.Once installed, edit your ~/.gitconfig and add the following lines
Tip:Meld OSX also understands/checks for the following environment variables.
The theme change can be done by changing the variable in the wrapper script
find the part that says
and change it to
and you'll have a fully dark meld..
Install Meld
Why Meld for Mac/OSX and not Macports/Homebrew
Top reasons behind using this fork over Macports or Homebrew builds:
Retina support (check the screenshot!)
Latest 3.x series
No hassle install (drag/drop like any other app)
Integrates with OSX menu
Supports standard OSX shortcuts (cmd-c/cmd-v instead of ctrl) (Merged to upstream)
Note: Homebrew now installs Meld for OSX
Screenshot
Special Thanks
To Kai Willadsen http://meldmerge.org/ for creating Meld.
To the Gnome project https://www.gnome.org/
To Alex Kras whose web page (How To Run Meld on Mac OS X Yosemite Without Homebrew, MacPorts, or Think) served as my reference for tracking Meld for OSX usage and issues when I had absolutely no time to maintain this.
TODO
Get rid of the Meld wrapper shell script (this should get rid of all the wrappers needed to run Meld from the terminal)
Support Meld localizations (currently only English works)
Suggestions / Issues
If you have a suggestion or you are facing an issue running this Meld fork, please open an issue here https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues. Please note that your issue has to be specific to the OSX fork and not to Meld itself. I have no plans/time to work on Meld itself.
Contribute to Meld for OSX
Head to https://github.com/yousseb/meld
Fork the repository and clone your fork locally.
Follow the build instructions in https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/README.md to generate your own dmg.
Do your magic, commit and push to your fork.
Create a pull request.
Not Accepting Donations
I'm not currently accepting donations for the development of this fork. I just missed a proper implementation of Meld on Mac so I thought of creating this fork. If you want to donate, please donate to the original Meld project.
The following is copied from the original Meld page http://meldmerge.org/. Please visit the original project website for more info. For the full help manual, please visit http://meldmerge.org/help/.
What is Meld?
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems.
Meld helps you review code changes and understand patches. It might even help you to figure out what is going on in that merge you keep avoiding.
Features
Two- and three-way comparison of files and directories
File comparisons update as you type
Auto-merge mode and actions on change blocks help make merges easier
Visualisations make it easier to compare your files
Supports Git, Bazaar, Mercurial, Subversion, etc.
…and more
Meld is licensed under the GPL v2, except as noted
In depth features
File comparison
Meld For Macbook Air
Edit files in-place, and your comparison updates on-the-fly
Perform two- and three-way diffs and merges
Easily navigate between differences and conflicts
Visualise global and local differences with insertions, changes and conflicts marked
Use the built-in regex text filtering to ignore uninteresting differences
Syntax highlighting
Directory comparison
Compare two or three directories file-by-file, showing new, missing, and altered files
Directly open file comparisons of any conflicting or differing files
Filter out files or directories to avoid seeing spurious differences
Simple file management is also available
Version control
Meld supports many version control systems, including Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and SVN
Launch file comparisons to check what changes were made, before you commit
View file versioning statuses
Simple version control actions are also available (i.e., commit/update/add/remove/delete files)
Merge mode (in development)
Meld For Windows
Automatically merge two files using a common ancestor
Mark and display the base version of all conflicting changes in the middle pane
Visualise and merge independent modifications of the same file
Lock down read-only merge bases to avoid mistakes
Command line interface for easy integration with existing tools, including git mergetool