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My dream would be to have a three-way merge tool that worked like this at a semantic level. It feels like merges almost always have the information needed to automatically resolve, but our line-based tools are too simple to see it.

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Resolve is another tree-sitter based tool that does this:

https://github.com/grammatech/resolve

I used to use Araxis Merge [1] years ago and found it worked very well.

[1] https://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en

Geez, I've been looking at diff programs and the personal licenses for them are so expensive. I get they're incredibly useful when you need them but I personally don't need a 3rd party differ very often. Kaleidoscope is $250ish IIRC.

The VSCode extension "Diff & Merge" give you the right/left arrows to merge lines if anyone is looking for a tool that does that. I haven't needed another one since I found that.

Sublime Merge was pretty alright, don't know if it's still around

It's still around and getting periodic updates. I originally bought it mainly to give Sublime more money (after using the Sublime Text trial for most of college), but it ended up being useful and I use it daily

https://www.sublimemerge.com/download

This is now supported without extensions in latest vscode

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