Merging—manual or automatic—is at the heart of any file comparison and folder synchronization tool. At the heart of DeltaWalker's manual text merging capabilities are the fly-by merge arrows.
When DeltaWalker visualizes text files with differences it draws colored rectangles around the blocks of text that have been deleted, added, that match but have differences, or that, in the case of three-way comparison, match but have conflicting differences.
Reconciling files containing such differences usually involves:
And this, as supported by the screenshot below, is exactly the role of the fly-by merge arrows in DeltaWalker.
The merge arrows appear only when the cursor is over a difference, i.e. over a block of text marked as a difference, doing their part to keep DeltaWalker's UI clutter-free. If you move the cursor over the little blue icon and keep it there for a moment a toolitp will appear, as illustrated above. Pressing Ctrl, or Ctrl+Shift, will draw a small '+' or '-' sign inside the arrow to ensure that the effect of the pending operation is clear.
In three-way comparison, DeltaWalker offers automatic reconciliation of non-conflicting differences.
The combination of manual and automatic merging are two of the tools in DeltaWalker that will help you reconcile with confidence and ease even large and heavily modified files.