Meld (software)

{{Short description|GNOME visual diff and merge tool}}

{{Primary sources|date=May 2022}}

{{Infobox software

| name =

| title = Meld

| logo = Meld Logo.svg

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| screenshot = Meld file1.png

| caption = Meld 3.x.y performing a file comparison

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| author = Stephen Kennedy, Kai Willadsen, Vincent Legoll

| developer = The GNOME Project

| released = {{Start date and age|2002|08|08}}{{cite web

| url = https://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/tag/?h=release-0_5_1

| title = meld - Compare files, directories and working copies

| website = git.gnome.org}}

| discontinued =

| latest release version = 3.22.2

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2024|03|24}}{{cite web

| url = https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/tags

| title = Tags - GNOME / meld

| publisher = The GNOME Project

| access-date = 19 March 2021}}

| programming language = Python, PyGTK/PyGObject

| operating system = Linux and Unix-like, macOS, Windows

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| genre = Diff viewer

| license = GPL-2.0-or-later

| website = {{URL|https://meldmerge.org}},
{{URL|https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/wikis/home}}

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Meld is a visual diff and merge tool, targeted at developers. It allows users to compare two or three files or directories visually, color-coding the different lines.

Meld can be used for comparing files, directories, and version controlled repositories. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and supports many version control systems including Git, Mercurial, Baazar, CVS and Subversion.

Meld is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL-2.0-or-later).