The kaleidoscope: URL scheme
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!
Automation
Why to (not) use –dir-diff with git difftool?
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.
Comparing Archive Contents with Kaleidoscope
Over the last few months, we’ve received several feature requests for the ability to compare the contents of archives like .zip or .jar. Indeed, an archive is really a folder full of files, a folder that happens to be compressed into a single file. So we should be able to compare archives using Kaleidoscope.