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| author | gregory guy <gregory-tde@laposte.net> | 2020-06-27 14:46:01 +0200 |
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| committer | gregory guy <gregory-tde@laposte.net> | 2020-06-27 14:46:01 +0200 |
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Drop automake build support.
Add basic cmake build instructions.
Delete the NEWS file.
Rework of the README.
The man folder has been moved into the doc folder for consistency with what
have been done so far.
The html pages have been moved into the doc folder as well.
Some cosmetics.
Signed-off-by: gregory guy <gregory-tde@laposte.net>
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diff --git a/doc/html/documentation.html b/doc/html/documentation.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..969cf42 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/html/documentation.html @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +<html><head><title>Chapter 2. File Comparison And Merge</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="help:/common/tde-default.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><meta name="keywords" content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, tdeio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><link rel="prev" href="features.html" title="More Features"><link rel="next" href="opendialog.html" title="Open-Dialog"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div style="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><div style="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><img src="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png" style="margin: 0px" alt=""></div><div style="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">File Comparison And Merge</div></div><div style="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><a accesskey="p" href="features.html">Prev</a></div><div style="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><a accesskey="n" href="opendialog.html">Next</a></div><div class="navCenter"> </div></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="documentation"></a>Chapter 2. File Comparison And Merge</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="commandline"></a>Command-Line Options</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2488302"></a>Comparing 2 files: </h3></div></div></div><pre class="screen"> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file1 file2</code></em></span> +</pre></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2488321"></a>Merging 2 files: </h3></div></div></div><pre class="screen"> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file1 file2</code></em></span> -m + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file1 file2</code></em></span> -o <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>outputfile</code></em></span> +</pre></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2488352"></a>Comparing 3 files: </h3></div></div></div><pre class="screen"> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file1 file2 file3</code></em></span> +</pre></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2488370"></a>Merging 3 files: </h3></div></div></div><pre class="screen"> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file1 file2 file3</code></em></span> -m + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file1 file2 file3</code></em></span> -o <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>outputfile</code></em></span> +</pre><p> + Note that <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file1</code></em></span> will be treated as + base of <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file2</code></em></span> and + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>file3</code></em></span>. +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2488418"></a>Special case: Files with the same name </h3></div></div></div><p> +If all files have the same name but are in different directories, you can +reduce typework by specifying the filename only for the first file. E.g.: +</p><pre class="screen"> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>dir1/filename dir2 dir3</code></em></span> +</pre></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2488444"></a>Commandline for starting a directory comparison or merge: </h3></div></div></div><p>This is very similar, but now it's about directories.</p><pre class="screen"> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>dir1 dir2</code></em></span> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>dir1 dir2</code></em></span> -o <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>destdir</code></em></span> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>dir1 dir2 dir3</code></em></span> + <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>dir1 dir2 dir3</code></em></span> -o <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>destdir</code></em></span> +</pre><p>For directory comparison and merge you can continue to read <a href="dirmerge.html" title="Chapter 3. Directory Comparison and Merge with KDiff3">here</a>.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2488514"></a>Other command line options</h3></div></div></div><p>To see all available command line options type</p><pre class="screen"> +<span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="command"><span><strong class="command">kdiff3</strong></span></span> --help +</pre><p>Example output:</p><pre class="screen"> +Options: + -m, --merge Merge the input. + -b, --base file Explicit base file. For compatibility with certain tools. + -o, --output file Output file. Implies -m. E.g.: -o newfile.txt + --out file Output file, again. (For compatibility with certain tools.) + --auto No GUI if all conflicts are auto-solvable. (Needs -o file) + --qall Don't solve conflicts automatically. (For compatibility...) + --L1 alias1 Visible name replacement for input file 1 (base). + --L2 alias2 Visible name replacement for input file 2. + --L3 alias3 Visible name replacement for input file 3. + -L, --fname alias Alternative visible name replacement. Supply this once for every input. + --cs string Override a config setting. Use once for every setting. E.g.: --cs "AutoAdvance=1" + --confighelp Show list of config settings and current values. + --config file Use a different config file. +</pre><p>The option <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="option"><code class="option">--cs</code></span> allows you to adjust a configuration value that is otherwise only adjustable via the configure dialogs. +But be aware that when <span class="application">KDiff3</span> then terminates the changed value will be stored along with the other settings. +With <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="option"><code class="option">--confighelp</code></span> you can find out the names of the available items and current values.</p><p>Via <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="option"><code class="option">--config</code></span> you can specify a different config file. When you often use <span class="application">KDiff3</span> +with completely different setups this allows you to easily switch between them.</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id2488593"></a>Ignorable command line options</h3></div></div></div><p>Many people want to use <span class="application">KDiff3</span> with some version control system. +But when that version control system calls <span class="application">KDiff3</span> using command line parameters that <span class="application">KDiff3</span> doesn't recognise, then <span class="application">KDiff3</span> terminates with an error. +The integration settings allow to specify command line parameters that should be ignored by <span class="application">KDiff3</span>. +They will appear in the usage help like in this example:</p><pre class="screen"> + --<span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="replaceable"><em class="replaceable"><code>foo</code></em></span> Ignored. (User defined.) +</pre><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Command line options to ignore:</em></span></span></dt><dd><p> + A list of options, separated via semicolon ';'. When one of these options appears on the commandline, + then <span class="application">KDiff3</span> will ignore it and run without reporting an error. + (Default is "u;query;html;abort").</p></dd></dl></div><p>When this isn't enough, then it is recommended to write a shell script that does the option translation.</p></div></div></div><div style="background-color: #white; color: black; margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><a accesskey="p" href="features.html">Prev</a></div><div style="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><a accesskey="n" href="opendialog.html">Next</a></div><div align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></div></div><div style="background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div class="navLeft">More Features </div><div class="navRight"> Open-Dialog</div><div class="navCenter"><a accesskey="u" href="index.html">Up</a></div></div><br><br><div class="bannerBottom" style="background-image: url(help:/common/bottom-middle.png); background-repeat: x-repeat; width: 100%; height: 100px; bottom:0px;"><div class="BannerBottomRight"><img src="help:/common/bottom-right.png" style="margin: 0px" alt=""></div><div class="bannerBottomLeft"><img src="help:/common/bottom-left.png" style="margin: 0px;" alt=""></div><div id="comments" style="position:relative; top: 5px; left: 1em; height:85px; width: 50%; color: #cfe1f6"><p>Would you like to make a comment or contribute an update to this page?<br> + Send feedback to the <a href="mailto:kde-docs@kdemail.net" style="background:transparent; color:#cfe1f6; text-decoration: underline;">KDE Docs Team</a></p></div></div></body></html>
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