Who we are

We are the developers of Plastic SCM, a full version control stack (not a Git variant). We work on the strongest branching and merging you can find, and a core that doesn't cringe with huge binaries and repos. We also develop the GUIs, mergetools and everything needed to give you the full version control stack.

If you want to give it a try, download it from here.

We also code SemanticMerge, and the gmaster Git client.

Using Changes app

Friday, April 03, 2009 thewhiteline 1 Comments

As most of us Mac developers will be aware, Xcode comes with FileMerge, but sometimes you just need a little bit extra. I recently came across Changes, here's how to use it with Plastic.

After downloading, install the Terminal Utility to give yourself the command line interface. Then, from within a workspace, you can diff two revisions like so (I'm using BASH):

$ chdiff <(cm cat GameScene.mm#br:/main#1) <(cm cat GameScene.mm#br:/main#LAST)

To get this working from within the Plastic GUI client, we'll need to edit the client.conf file which is located in ~/.plastic/client.conf.

Find the section <DiffTools>, and a few lines down replace the "mergetool" entry with this:

<string>/usr/bin/chdiff "@sourcefile" "@destinationfile"</string>
Restart the Plastic GUI client and diff away.






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