io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse Diffuse Graphical merge tool

Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.

FSFAP GPL-2.0-or-later io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse.desktop https://mightycreak.github.io/diffuse/ https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse/issues https://mightycreak.github.io/diffuse/images/screenshot_v0.5.0.png Main window: diff between two files

Mainly under the hood changes in this release, so nothing really visible to the users in this version. That said, I figured it was a long time since the last release (4 months ago) and, as promised, I want Diffuse development to be a bit more active and iterative.

Apart from the maintenance changes 🧰, I think the main improvement is that Diffuse will soon be available through Flathub!

Added:

  • New Flatpak package, published on Flathub: com.github.mightycreak.Diffuse

Changed:

  • Replace old install.py with the more standard Meson
  • Remove u string prefixes since Python 3 is in UTF-8 by default
  • Replaced some interpolation operators (%) for the f string prefix
  • Use the window scale factor for the icons generation

Here is the v0.5.0. Unintentionally, this release happens exactly 6 years after the previous v0.4.8 release!

There is a lot to do on this application, and some features didn't make the release. The main one being the Windows installers. I think 6 years is too long to continue to wait until this bug is fixed. The Python scripts should work on Windows, but no executable is produced (yet) with the release.

Other than that, Diffuse v0.5.0 is now officially compatible with Python 3 and GTK 3! And it is synced to the latest commits from upstream (which were never released).

The next version will not take 6 years, I promise you! 😄

Added:

  • Added Pedro Albuquerque's Portuguese translation
  • Added Ã…ke Engelbrektson's Swedish translation
  • Added Guillaume Hoffmann's Darcs support improvements
  • Added Akom Chotiphantawanon's Thai translation
  • Added support for Git submodules
  • Added a preference and command line option to specify the version control system search order
  • Added .editorconfig file
  • Added .gitignore file
  • Added message when removing files during uninstallation
  • Added Python script to update all the translation files at once

Changed:

  • Convert to Python 3
  • Convert to GTK 3
  • Updated Python highlighting for Python 3 grammar
  • Updated copyrights years and authors
  • Improve Spanish translation
  • Convert translation README to MarkDown
  • Updated all the translation files

Fixed:

  • Fixed wrong icons directory for gtk-update-icon-cache
  • Fixed missing directories when uninstalling
  • Fixed bug introduced by r420 with RCS VCS
  • Fixed broken drag'n'drop since migration to Python3/GTK3
  • Fixed error when using '-m' in an SVN repo
 Romain Failliot romain.failliot@foolstep.com