Thanks for the recommendation, changes.app does look nice. I will definitely check it out once I have upgraded to Leopard.

FileMerge on the other hand does not play nice with accented characters, Umlauts etc. 
If that can be cured I'd be interested to hear about it. 

Thanks for all the answers, I was without internet for a couple of days (and actually enjoyed it).


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Mark Eli Kalderon <eli@markelikalderon.com> wrote:

On Feb 18 2008, at 22:02, Christoph Held wrote:

>
> What about any of those tools that claiim to be doing backup/
> mirroring  and
> versioning of everything  (including binary files?) at once such as
> Brackup:
> http://search.cpan.org/~bradfitz/Brackup-1.06/lib/Brackup/Manual/Overview.pod

Backup and version control are different things. If you use version
control, say subversion, your repository should also be backed up.

Subversion also allows an external diff command. Haris mentioned
wdiff, but many GUI diff programs such as FileMerge (which comes along
with the Apple Developer Tools) or Changes[1] display word differences
along with line differences.

Best, Mark

[1] http://changesapp.com/

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