Modern Git workflows aren’t just about branches anymore. With AI agents generating changes in parallel, it’s becoming normal to have multiple working copies, multiple ideas, and a lot more to review. Kaleidoscope 6.7 helps you navigate and understand complex changesets.
Following a tradition we started last year, this post collects a few illustrated tips about lesser-known additions to Kaleidoscope in 2025. Small features that can come in very handy once you know they exist.
Ever tried to compare a Windows-created file on macOS and run into an error? Here’s how to make Kaleidoscope handle it smoothly.
Kaleidoscope can now hide equal blocks of text by collapsing them into a single expandable line. This significantly shortens text comparisons when most of the text in A and B is identical. Collapsing unchanged lines lets you quickly focus on the differences.
This week we have a rather straightforward quick tip about the File History. There are two aspects to it: which files’ history is being shown, and what branch does it show?
Another quick tip: how do you add a Git Repository to Kaleidoscope, and more importantly, why you really want that.
Today’s quick tip is simple yet useful: discover what a patch file is and learn how to create one, whether as a file or by copying its content directly to the clipboard.
Kaleidoscope 5.0 added a view for Git Repositories with capabilities to open many useful git diffs. Today, we are introducing several major improvements, including a commit history.
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.
When using git from the command line you need to know the difference between difftool and mergetool. This short article explains their difference.