Simple plugin which allow use UE4 as git merge-tool
Mergery is proof of concent and it not ready for real use
Clone and build Mergery with RunUAT.
\path\to\RunUAT.bat BuildPlugin -Plugin="path\to\cloned\Mergery.uplugin" -Package="\path\to\build\outcome\Mergery"
Download and install go from https://golang.org open a command promt
cd \path\to\build\outcome\Mergery\smort-merge
go build
It will prodice smort-merge.exe which you have to copy to \path\to\build\outcome\Mergery\Binaries\Win64 or to any other place.
Open \path\to\build\outcome\Mergery\Mergery.uplugin with text edior and add "EnabledByDefault" : true, to it.
Create \path\to\UE_4.26\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace folder, and copy \path\to\build\outcome\Mergery there
- You don't have to put Mergery to project
Pluginsfolder. - You don't have to activate it in Plugins windows. Nobody will know that you are using it.
Open git bash promt
Use / instead of \
git config --global mergetool.smort-merge.path "/path/to/UE_4.26/Engine/Plugins/Marketplace/Mergery/Binaries/Win64/smort-merge.exe"
git config --global mergetool.smort-merge.cmd '/path/to/UE_4.26/Engine/Plugins/Marketplace/Mergery/Binaries/Win64/smort-merge.exe --base "$BASE" --local "$LOCAL" --remote "$REMOTE" --output "$MERGED" -engine "/path/to/UE_4.26/Engine/Binaries/Win64/UE4Editor.exe" -fallback "C:/Program Files/KDiff3/kdiff3.exe"'
git config --global merge.tool smort-merge
git config --global merge.guitool smort-merge
git config --global mergetool.smort-merge.trustExitCode true
smort-merge.exe is small util which checks file extentsions, runs UE4 and сontrols UE4's exit codes. It may be implemented in any language what you want.
When smort-merge.exe open non .uasset file, it will run merge-tool from --fallback argument (kdiff3 for example)