If you don’t know, or didn’t previously care im a developer by trade.
Recently I’ve been working on a few Flex and AIR projects that required me to build up my own SDK’s. To do this, i simply had to merge two folders which had ALMOST the same files, but not quite.
In windows, or linux gui, if you want to merge folders, you just drop one on top of the other and agree to replace all existing files that are the same.
This does a file-by-file comparison and copies files over the top of the existing ones.
OSX, with its USP being that its supremely user friendly, does the same doesn’t it.
No.
Terminal > ditto -v.
As it happens, im totally happy with command line interfaces, especially ones based on *nix. I find it kind of geeky cool, and have even installed the Visor plugin (for additional geek coolness).
I got my SDK merged ok and managed to move on, but it took a while to realise that it was OSX’s fault.
My reason for whining about it (and it is full-on whining) is that I can’t believe that was how i HAD to do it. Not so much for me, but what about anyone who isn’t as comfortable with a unix command line?
