Bug 184837

Summary: KDiff3 should be able to open and save partially merged files
Product: [Applications] kdiff3 Reporter: Thomas Fischer <fischer>
Component: applicationAssignee: michael <reeves.87>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: reeves.87
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thomas Fischer 2009-02-18 20:02:58 UTC
Version:           0.9.94 (using KDE 4.2.0)
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 (Gentoo 4.2.4-r1 p1.1) 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

If a merging process of two files is not yet finished, the user cannot save the current state. How about saving the partially merged text files in a format similar to the conflict format as used by svn? Using such an approach, the merging process can be resumed later.

Example:

some text
<<<<<<<< a.txt
text variant from a.txt
========
text variant from b.txt
>>>>>>>> b.txt
more text