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Installing from the Araxis Website

The Merge for Mac OS X Download page on the Araxis website offers two different setup disk images (.dmg files). Please ensure that you download the correct one for your version of Mac OS X.

For both disk images, the 200X in the filename indicates the year in which the version of Merge was released; the YYYY indicates the build number.

Installing the main Merge application

To install the Merge application itself:

Integrating Merge with Finder (optional)

Merge comes with a context menu plugin for Finder. It adds commands to Finder’s context menus that enable you to launch Merge comparisons for selected files and folders.

To install the plugin:

To make the plugin available to all users, use /Library/Contextual Menu Items instead of ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items above.

Installing the Merge command-line utilities (optional)

If you wish to use Merge from the command-line, or integrate it with another application, you will need to install the Merge command-line utilities. These can be placed anywhere on your system, should also be part of your preferred command-line shell’s search path.

To install the command-line utilities:

Whenever upgrade Merge, ensure that the installed Merge command-line utilities match the version of the main Merge application that you have installed.

Integrating Merge with other applications (optional)

Please see Integrating with Source Control, Configuration Management and Other Applications for information about using Merge with certain other applications.

Sample files

The Sample Files folder on the Merge disk image contains samples files that you might wish to compare using Merge.

Sample scripts

The Sample Scripts folder on the Merge disk image contains samples AppleScript files. See the AppleScript API page for further information.