What s the best three-way merge tool

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Subversion  Git  Mercurial and others support three-way merges  combining mine  theirs  and the  base  revision  and support graphical tools to resolve conflicts   What tool do you use  Windows  Mac nbsp OS nbsp X  Linux  free or commercial  you name it   Here s a few that I ve used or heard of  just to get the conversation started     KDiff3 DiffMerge P4Merge Meld Beyond Compare Pro     I recognize that this is sort of like the Best Diff Tool  but it s different in that I explicitly focus on three-way merge tools  WinMerge is off the list  for example

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Meld Diff Viewer  I have had only good experiences working with Meld  I use it when I have to do messy code merges between branches  It is simple to use and has a clean interface     Open Source  Linux  Windows and MacOS Supported  Multiple File Diff  Three-way Compare Support   In Ubuntu  install is as simple as  sudo apt-get install meld

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Kdiff3 conflict resolution algorithm is really impressive    Even when subversion indicates a conflict  Kdiff3 solves it automatically  There s versions for Windows and Linux with the same interface  It is possible to integrate it with Tortoise and with your linux shell    It is in the list of my favorite open source software  One of the first tools I install in any machine    You can configure it as the default diff tool in Subversion  Git  Mercurial  and ClearCase  It also solves almost all the ClearCase conflicts  In Windows  it has a nice integration with windows explorer  select two files and right click to compare them  or right click to  save to later  a file  and then select another one to compare    The merged file is editable  Has slick keyboard shortcuts    You can also use it compare and merge directories  See     An advanced feature is to use regular expressions for defining automatic merges   My only annoyance is that it is a little difficult to compile if it isn t present in your favorite distro repository

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KDiff3  open source  cross platform  Same interface for Linux and Windows  very smart algorithm for solving conflicts  regular expressions for automatically solving conflicts  integrate with ClearCase  SVN  Git  MS Visual Studio  editable merged file  compare directories  Its keyboard-navigation is great  ctrl-arrows to navigate the diffs  ctrl-1  2  3 to do the merging   Also  see https   stackoverflow com a 2434482 42473

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I love Ediff  It comes built-in with GNU Emacs   To do a three-way diff  use ediff-files3  for selecting three files  or ediff-buffer3  for selecting three already-open buffers   You ll get a screen looking like this     Note the word-difference higlighting   You can hit n or p to go to the next previous diffs  while ab will copy the region from buffer a  the leftmost one  to buffer b  the middle one   and similarly for other two-letter combinations of a  b  c  rb will restore the region in buffer b  Hit   for a quick help menu  or read the fine manual on diff3 merging in Emacs

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Beyond Compare 3 Pro supports three-way merging  and it is a pretty impressive merge tool  It s commercial  but worth it  IMHO  and is available on Windows  Linux  and Mac OS X   As pointed out in a comment  it s also inexpensive     Note  If one does not have a merge set  that is  merge markers resident in the destination file  Beyond Compare does not offer three-way file compare editing  Beyond Compare says that feature is on their list   Note  3-way merge is a feature in the Pro edition of Beyond Compare 3 only

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Araxis Merge  It is commerical  but it is so worth it    It is available for Windows and the Mac nbsp OS nbsp X

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Diffuse is an easy to use three-way merge tool   It supports all of the platforms and version control systems you mentioned  and it can compare more than three files at the same time

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vimdiff   It s great   All you need is a window three feet wide

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Ultracompare  It is really good  handles large files  more than 1 nbsp GB  well  is available for Windows Mac Linux  and it s commercial  but it is worth it

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xxdiff if you re in Linux land

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The summary is that I found ECMerge to be a great  though commercial product  http   www elliecomputing com products merge overview asp    I also agree with MrTelly that Ultracompare is very good  One nice feature is that it will compare RTF and Word docs  which is handy when you end up programming in word with the sales guys and they don t manage their docs correctly

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Source Gear Diff Merge   Cross-platform  true three-way merges and it s completely free for commercial or personal usage

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Just checked out P4merge since I heard about it in another blog article     Very slick interface  and FREE   I ve been a faithful Araxis Merge user  but considering this is free and awesome  I d encourage you to check it out

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