PatchViewer 1.0.9 Release Notes

Minor bug fix release.

Features

View patch files (or the output from diff-like command-line tool) using your existing third-party graphical file comparison tool.

Support for traditional, context and unified diff formats.

Accepts diff data piped into it as standard input when invoked from the command-line.

Changes since 1.0.7

+ Added support for Github patches.

Fixed problem where some unified diff files were not being parsed correctly.

Known issues

× No support for binary file diffs/comparisons.

Other notes

Patch Viewer is configured by default to use Xcode's FileMerge to display file comparison data. It also supports any file comparison tool that can be launched with source and destination files as command-line arguments. You can configure custom command-line arguments to pass to your third-party file comparison tool in Patch Viewer's Preference panel.

Compatibility Notes

This release is for Yosemite versions from 10.10.5 and El Capitan versions from 10.11.5


Released 2016-07-12.