Launch External Merge Tool For Sourcetree Mac

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I am running OS X.10, Xcode 7 and SourceTree 2. When I select a conflicted file and Launch an external merge tool, there is a window that appears very briefly. And then nothing happens. In this article we will configure winmerge as diff and merge tool in git but you can configure any other tool with same way. Before we start, make sure you have winmerge installed on your machine, you can download from here. You can configure external diff and merge tool by git bash commands as show below. Suddenly, when I try to launch 'External merge tool' from Sourcetree, the tool does not appear. I say suddenly, because it worked last time I tried. The dialog remains forever: Eventually I found this process related to the visual merge (dunno how to copy the command line from windows task manager). I can’t get Araxis Merge to work with an actual 3-way merge. Launching an external diff works properly, but the “Resolve Conflicts-Launch External Merge Tool” just quickly opens the external merge window and then closes it. I also see the.orig files building up in the folder.


After some great community feedback, we are releasing SourceTree for Mac 1.6. This is a major release that contains many new features.

Interactive Rebase

Having to bring up a terminal when you want to do an interactive rebase is painful. If you aren’t familiar with rebasing or the command-line, the pain levels up to excruciating. We asked ourselves: “How can we make this simpler and keep everything in SourceTree?” Our solution is a visual, drag-and-drop interaction:

The UI gives you visual feedback on each step of this previously advanced function. Want to re-order your commits? Want two commits to be one commit? No problem, just drag and drop the rows around.

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Improved Notifications of Remote Changes

Previously, users checked for the pull counts by going into either the bookmarks view or the repository view. If your team commits frequently, you were checking there a lot. Now, the improved notifications center puts this information front and center:

Sourcetree Launch External Merge Tool Mac

Are you using OS X 10.6/10.7? No worries, we use Growl so it handles everything for you. If you’re on Mountain Lion, we use the notification centre so you’ve got more granular control over notifications. Prior to Mountain Lion, you could use Growl to control the notification granularity. We find them really useful; especially when we’re expecting changes we need in our local copy.

Atlassian ID Integration

SourceTree won’t cost you a penny but we do ask you to register to continue using it after your 30 day trial. Registration helps us gather useful statistics that we use build a better SourceTree. Still, we know registration costs you time, so we’ve improved it. We’ve redesigned registration as a two-step process from within SourceTree. No more web registration. Even better, the in-product registration creates an Atlassian ID that can you can use with other Atlassian products.

Icon Refresh

Have you noticed our new icons? They’ve been out but now we’d like to point them out. We think our new icons have a fresh look that brings SourceTree in line with the rest of Atlassian’s product family.

Mac App Store Note

A final note just to say that we no longer publish to the Mac App Store due to sandboxing restrictions. Check Steve’s blog post about sandboxing for more information.

And much more…

  • You can now Log Selected… on multiple files at once.
  • The push sheet in Mercurial shows which branch you’re pushing to.
  • New preference show the pull count for the currently checked out branch.
  • Git repositories now remember the previously selected options in the pull/merge sheets.
  • Support for the latest Araxis diff/merge tools.
  • The “commit merged changes immediately” setting is now remembered between pulls
  • Support for longer passwords for Bitbucket, Stash, GitHub and Kiln.

Work on Windows? We’ve got that covered, too. SourceTree for Windows 0.9.2.2 is now out including git-flow support! Check out our main website for more information and download.

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Using TortoiseDiff and TortoiseMerge in Atlassian SourceTree

I’m using SourceTree along with TortoiseMerge/Diff, which is very easy and convenient diff/merge tool. But, because it isn’t that easy and convenient to install and configure both tools, I wrote this simple memo-post to have check-list for future reference in one place.

Steps.

  1. Get standalone version of TortoiseMerge/Diff (quite old, since it doesn’t ship standalone since version 1.6.7 of TortosieSVN, that is since July 2011). Links and details in this answer.

  2. Unzip TortoiseIDiff.exe and TortoiseMerge.exe to any folder (c:Program Files (x86)AtlassianSourceTreeextras in my case).

  3. In SourceTree open Tools > Options > Diff > External Diff / Merge. Select TortoiseMerge in both dropdown lists.

  4. Hit OK and point SourceTree to your location of TortoiseIDiff.exe and TortoiseMerge.exe.

After that, you can select Resolve Conflicts > Launch External Merge Tool from context menu on each conflicted file in your local repository. This will open up TortoiseMerge, where you can easily deal with all the conflicts, you have. Once finished, simply close TortoiseMerge (you don’t even need to save changes, this will probably be done automatically) and after few seconds SourceTree should handle that gracefully.

The only problem is, that it automatically creates backup copy, even though proper option is unchecked.

Merge

There is an alternate solution to this problem, which uses KDiff3 instead of TortoiseDiff / TortoiseMerge.

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Source of this article: Stack Overflow.