What Is Meld? What Is Meld?
What Is Meld? What Is Meld?
What is Meld?
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at
developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories,
and version controlled projects. It provides two- and
three-way comparison of both files and directories, and
has support for many popular version control systems.
Features
Two- and three-way comparison of files and
directories
File comparisons update as you type
Auto-merge mode and actions on change blocks
help make merges easier
Visualisations make it easier to compare your files
Supports Git, Bazaar, Mercurial, Subversion, etc.
…and more
Getting it
Meld is packaged for most Linux/Unix distributions, Source: Meld 3.20.2 16 February 2020
including Fedora, Ubuntu, and Suse. Unless you want
the absolutely latest version, you should install Meld Windows: Meld 3.20.2 16 February 2020
through your package manager.
Note: The 3.20 Windows build uses a new build chain.
Windows users should download the MSI, or for older If you experience issues, please use Meld 3.18.3.
releases, check out the Meld installer project.
Devel: Meld 3.21.0 19 April 2020
On OS X, Meld is not yet officially supported. For pre-
built binaries, these OS X builds are the best option.
You can also get Meld from MacPorts, Fink or Brew; Requirements
none of these methods are supported. Python 3.3 (3.6 in development)
GTK+ 3.14 (3.20 in development)
You can also run Meld without installing it. Just extract
GLib 2.36 (2.48 in development)
the archive and run bin/meld from the archive folder.
PyGObject 3.14 (3.30 in development)
GtkSourceView 3.14 (4.0 in development)
pycairo (1.15 in development)