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<html><head><title>Doing A Directory Merge</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="help:/common/kde-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, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><link rel="up" href="dirmerge.html" title="Chapter 3. Directory Comparison and Merge with KDiff3"><link rel="prev" href="dirmergevisible.html" title="Directory Merge Visible Information"><link rel="next" href="dirmergeoptions.html" title="Options for Comparing and Merging Directories"><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">Doing A Directory 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="dirmergevisible.html">Prev</a></div><div style="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><a accesskey="n" href="dirmergeoptions.html">Next</a></div><div class="navCenter">Directory Comparison and Merge with <span class="application">KDiff3</span></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="dothemerge"></a>Doing A Directory Merge</h2></div></div></div><p>
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You can either merge the currently selected item (file or directory), or all items.
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When you have made all your operation choices (in all subdirectories too)
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then you can start the merge.
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</p><p>
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Be aware that if you didn't specify a destination directory explicitely,
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then the destination will be "C" in three directory mode, "B" in two directory
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merge mode, and in sync-mode it will be "A" or/and "B".
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</p><p>
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If you have specified a destination directory also check that all items
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that should be in the output, are in the tree. There are some options that
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cause certain items to be omitted from the directory comparison and merge.
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Check these options to avoid unpleasant surprises:
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</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>"Recursive Directories": If this is off, then items in subdirectories
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will not be found.</p></li><li><p>"Pattern"/"Anti-Pattern": Include/exclude items that match</p></li><li><p>"Exclude Hidden Files"</p></li><li><p><a href="dirmergevisible.html#selectingvisiblefiles" title="Selecting Listed Files">"Show"-options</a> (Show Identical/Different Files, Files only in A/B/C)</p></li></ul></div><p>
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If you change the settings in order to list more files, you must do a rescan via menu "Directory"->"Rescan" yourself.
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(The reason for this is that for faster comparison-speed <span class="application">KDiff3</span> omits the comparison for files suppressed by these criteria.)
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If you changed your file and dir patterns to exclude files, then the file-list will immediately be updated on closing
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the options-dialog.
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Note that when you write to a completely new directory then you usually also want to copy the identical files.
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In that case enable the "Show Identical Files"-option. If your destination-directory is one of the inputs,
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then this isn't necessary because the file is already there.
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</p><p>
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If you are satisfied so far, the rest is easy.
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</p><p>
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To merge all items: Select "Start/Continue directory merge" in the "Directory"-menu
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or press F7 (which is the default shortcut).
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To merge only the current item: Select "Run Operation For Current Item"
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or press F6.
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</p><p>
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If due to conflicting filetypes still some items with invalid operations
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exist, then a messagebox will appear and these items will be pointed out,
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so you can select a valid operation for the item.
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</p><p>
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If you merge all items a dialog will appear giving you the options "Do it", "Simulate
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it" and "Cancel".
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</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>Select "Simulate it" if you want to see what would be done without
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actually doing it. A verbose list of all operations will be shown.</p></li><li><p>Otherwise select "Do it" to really start merging.</p></li></ul></div><p>
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Then <span class="application">KDiff3</span> will run the specified operation for all items. If manual
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interaction is required (single file merge), then a merge window will open
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(<a href="screenshots.html#dirmergebigscreenshot">see the big screenshot</a>).
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</p><p>
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When you have finished with manually merging a file, again select "Start/Continue directory
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merge" or the key F7. If you haven't saved it yet, a dialog will ask you to
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do so. Then <span class="application">KDiff3</span> will continue with the next item.
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</p><p>
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When <span class="application">KDiff3</span> encounters an error, it will tell you so and will show the
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verbose-status-information. At the bottom of this list, there will be some
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error messages which should help you to understand the cause of the problem.
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When you continue merging (F7 key) <span class="application">KDiff3</span> will give you the choice to retry
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or skip the item that caused the problem. This means that before continuing
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you can choose another operation or solve the problem by other means.
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</p><p>
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When the merge is complete, then <span class="application">KDiff3</span> will inform you via a message
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box.
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</p><p>
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If some items were merged individually before running the directorymerge then
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<span class="application">KDiff3</span> remembers this (while this
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merge-session goes on), and doesn't merge them again when later the merge for
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all items is run. Even when the merge was skipped or nothing was saved these
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items count as completed. Only when you change the merge operation the
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"Done"-status of the item will be removed and it can be merged again.
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