It's a shame really. If it had merge it would be the best looking and working 
without a shadow of a doubt. 

Why do great looking apps always lack key functionality!

Cue


On 11 Jan 2011, at 20:04, Charles Fahey <cfa...@cfahey.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> Just to clarify, Kaleidoscope does not merge. It only displays
> differences between files - beautifully I might add. But no merging in
> Kaleidoscope.
> 
> - Charles
> 
> On Jan 10, 6:32 pm, Steve M <smun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree that diff/merge was certainly an omission.  It was almost a
>> deal-breaker for me to buy Versions.  Sofa has taken care of that now,
>> but they did that by adding another product (Kaleidoscope).  I don't
>> want to have to buy another product to get a feature that should be
>> built into this one.
>> 
>> Anyway, I use TextWrangler for diff/merge and I'm quite happy with
>> it.  Anyone who is struggling with this feature should download and
>> install TextWrangler.  It integrates really nicely with Versions and
>> it gets the job done.  Apple's FileMerge is part of the Dev Tools (I
>> believe?) so that works fine for Objective-C developers, but web
>> developers running on a Mac may not decide to go that route.
>> 
>> On Jan 5, 3:27 pm, Daniel Dickison <danieldicki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I agree -- it was useful to see that Cornerstone had gotten a merge
>>> feature.  Competition is good and I hope it pressures Sofa to up the
>>> ante.
>> 
>>> On the other hand, I tried the new Cornerstone and fortunately (for
>>> Sofa), I'll be sticking with Versions for now.  We have repositories
>>> with hundreds of thousands of files and revisions, and Cornerstone's
>>> fancy timeline view doesn't seem to scale very well for large
>>> histories.  Things like viewing the log message and diffs for a
>>> specific revision from 2 years ago is a lot easier to navigate with
>>> Versions.  And to do that Versions was using 400MB RAM vs 1.5GB for
>>> Cornerstone.  So, hopefully performance is one aspect Versions can
>>> stay on top while adding new features.
>> 
>>> Daniel
>> 
>>> On Jan 3, 3:42 pm, ct-scan <jzg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> I'm glad the link to Cornerstone was posted, I've been using Versions
>>>> since the beta, and am getting frustrated that this obvious feature
>>>> still isn't integrated.
>> 
>>>> Maybe instead of additional UI enhancements (like the ones that just
>>>> came out), adding this much requested feature would be better.
>>>> I'd even upgrade to a new version for this feature, with no
>>>> hesitation.  I love Versions, but it's just not the most complete tool
>>>> out there.
>>>> I hope they fix this.
> 
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