Visual Merge

[WesPeterssoftweyr at xmission.com]

Francois Desvallees writes:
 > Can anyone recommend a visual merge tool for Windows?
 > 
 > I understand that the Perforce Windows GUI does not include
 > one. It would be nice to have it, instead of having to buy a separate
 > product.
 > 
 > Is this something in future versions?

You seem to fail to understand the UNIX philosophy here: supporting an
external tool is a *strength*, not a weakness.  Perforce are experts at
configuration management systems, not graphical merge tools.  You can
find a graphical merge tool that supports your needs, and Perforce will
nicely support it for you.

I haven't yet figured out how to call it from a command line, but GNU
Emacs has a nice (for emacs users, at least) diff/merge tool called
Ediff.  GNU Emacs is available for NT, and I believe the NT version will
run on 95 as well.  It's available from somewhere in the washington.edu
domain; I'm sure Alta Vista or InfoSeek can find it for you.

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