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That's not really a "better VCS" that's just a better 3-way merge. You can already plug your own 3-way merge into Git and other VCS.



Can you recommend any language aware 3-way merge tools?


Semantic Merge comes to mind, although it only does an AST merge on the structural level while blocks are still merged traditionally (I guess it's a good tradeoff of complexity, though). It has however proven to be rather slow with large merges (or large files; the source file I tried to merge had ~4 kLOC), in my recent test (was merging a major version of one product into derived ones, with lots of refactoring, so I thought SM could help).




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