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Hidden Gems of 2024

  • Florian 
  • 3 min read

For this post, we focus on some of the smaller and less well-known additions to Kaleidoscope in 2024. Chances are that you’ll learn something new that can increase your productivity.

The kaleidoscope: URL scheme

  • Florian 
  • 5 min read

Kaleidoscope 5.1 comes with a URL scheme, yet another new way to integrate with other apps on your Mac. Why would someone need that? Glad you asked!

Why to (not) use –dir-diff with git difftool?

  • Florian 
  • 9 min read

The topic of today sounds pretty technical, but it is one that has a great impact on your work, if you are a developer using Git. This post outlines two fundamentally different methods for examining Git changes with Kaleidoscope. An appendix illustrates how to combine your Git app of choice with either method.

The Cure for Merge Madness

  • catlan 
  • 5 min read

Following the addition of Git File History in Kaleidoscope 4.1, in this latest update we wanted to tackle merge conflicts by adding more context provided by Git. New tools enable you to understand conflicts better and thus resolve them faster.

Text Filters in Kaleidoscope 4

  • Florian 
  • 9 min read

Text filters reduce visual noise in a text comparison, noise that distracts from the differences you do care about. They are useful in a lot of scenarios, in particular when dealing with generated text like logs or files that contain “random” data, like timestamps or identifiers.