First, I should say that I really enjoy having meld on my Mac. Meld is my favorite difference tool, and it's really helpful to have both the differences between lines and the changes within a line highlighted.
I had some problems using the pre-built OSX binary on one of my Macs, so I switched to using the version installed using brew cask install meld. That got me Meld 3.19.0, and it works from the command line using meld. My issue is that meld always prints the path to the application, /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS, at startup. I think it should only print info like that if some command line option asking for more verbose comments or background information is given. I would prefer not to see that output line, especially when meld is being invoked by git for a difftool or a mergetool operation. I don't see a similar message when running Meld 3.16.0 on another Mac (where I installed using the pre-build OSX DMG version).
yousseb
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5 years ago
First, I should say that I really enjoy having meld on my Mac. Meld is my favorite difference tool, and it's really helpful to have both the differences between lines and the changes within a line highlighted.
I had some problems using the pre-built OSX binary on one of my Macs, so I switched to using the version installed using
brew cask install meld. That got me Meld 3.19.0, and it works from the command line usingmeld. My issue is thatmeldalways prints the path to the application,/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS, at startup. I think it should only print info like that if some command line option asking for more verbose comments or background information is given. I would prefer not to see that output line, especially whenmeldis being invoked bygitfor adifftoolor amergetooloperation. I don't see a similar message when running Meld 3.16.0 on another Mac (where I installed using the pre-build OSX DMG version).