New features in Ellié Computing Merge 2.4
ECMerge can now compare binary files. It presents differences in clear manner, its speed is impressing and it can collapse long portions of equal sequence of bytes. As with text files, it is possible to ignore portions of files to avoid spurious differences between build timestamps or random filling data for example. Read more...
You now have the choice between the typical 16x16 icons and larger 24x24 icons for screens with higer resolutions. We also rebuilt the application icon for 512x512 size for new OSs such as Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7.
Resolving the conflicts let behind by CVS, Subversion or Mercurial (complete list) is not a really practical task: text markers and special notations are inserted to keep track of the conflicts and it is easy to miss one of them. ECMerge completely releaves that pain by parsing these markers and presenting a usual two or three-way merge view, you can then solves the conflicts within the comfort of ECMerge powerful interface! More info...
Your file explorer, whichever it is from Windows Explorer, Mac OS Finder, Nautilus, Konqueror or even Thunar, is your simplest way to handle your files. ECMerge installs plugins for each of them and allows you to easily launch a comparison from a single click in the contextual menu. Nothing easier.
The Mac version of ECMerge contains a Menu Service starting with Snow Leopard, the contextual menu interface used up to Leopard for the Finder is not supported any more by Apple.
From the launcher, you can register the addresses for your favorite sites, then reuse them with a double-clic or drag'n'drop.
Comparison sessions are automatically saved each time that you close a comparison (which has no ECMS/T file).
With the launcher, it takes just a second to start again a comparison... better, the workspace allow you to organize and restart your work by opening again all your files and comparisons with a single double-click (or at ECMerge start-up).
The latest ActiveX version of ECMerge now supports systems with the data execution prevention enabled (NX flag). It supports all the features of the standalone version. It integrates to your application, your scripts or web site thanks to the ActiveX technology. It can e.g. generate a patch between two strings of text and obtain the result as a string as well, all of that with or without user interface.
You can try it now in your web browser with the on-line demonstration page.
