Talk:Merge (version control)

N-way merges
Why aren't there more than 2 or 3 way merges? I found myself in a situation today where 4-way merge would have been great. Instead I had to have 2 different windows of a 2-way and 3-way open at once.

Do N-way merge tools exist?

Bwbuckley (talk) 01:52, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

This is a misleading question, caused by the original misleading wording in the article. N-way merges are 3-way merges with more than two derivatives.

89.27.105.187 (talk) 17:41, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

The discussion about 3 way merge is not encyclopedic
It lacks objectivity and sources.

- This merge is the most reliable and has performed well in practice.

No sources, personal opinion.

- This automatic merging is something that even experienced programmers (only exposed to a two-way diff) often find miraculous and is an enormous breakthrough in computer science that is normally not taught as such.

No sources, non objective. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bleakcabal (talk • contribs) 15:45, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

The discussion about "trends" is biased
The "trends" section does not meet Wikipedia's quality criteria. It contains opinions and is not backed up by substantive research or sources.

P4Merge?
Should P4Merge be listed here? It seems to have similar functionality to some of the other tools listed. P4Merge is available independently of the rest of Perforce: http://www.perforce.com/product/components/perforce_visual_merge_and_diff_tools and it can be used with other version control systems such as Git. (See, for example, this blog from a Git user who doesn't like or use Perforce: http://www.andymcintosh.com/?p=33 )

DMarti (talk) 18:54, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Resulting Merged Program Correctness
There is nothing here in relation to the correctness of the resulting merge. All of the merges in play currently appear to be somewhat unintelligent in that we haven't yet gotten to the ability of a computer to analyse a program and check that one person's change is in fact compatible with with another persons - the merges are for most part pretty dumb.

ZhuLien (talk) 15:28, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

CVS started as a set of ...
I believe CVS started as a set of scripts on RCS, not diff3. diff3 would only have been used for merging, which is only one aspect of a version control system.

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