Unity incorporates a tool called UnityYAMLMerge that can merge sceneA Scene contains the environments and menus of your game. Think of each unique Scene file as a unique level. In each Scene, you place your environments, obstacles, and decorations, essentially designing and building your game in pieces. More info
See in Glossary and prefabAn asset type that allows you to store a GameObject complete with components and properties. The prefab acts as a template from which you can create new object instances in the scene. More info
See in Glossary files in a semantically correct way. The tool can be accessed from the command line and is also available to third party version controlA system for managing file changes. You can use Unity in conjunction with most common version control tools, including Perforce, Git, Mercurial and PlasticSCM. More info
See in Glossary software.
In the Editor Settings (menu: Edit > Project Settings > Editor), you have the option to select a third party version control tool (Perforce or PlasticSCM, for example). When one of these tools is enabled, you will see a Smart Merge menu under the Version Control heading. The menu has four options:
The UnityYAMLMerge tool is shipped with the Unity editor; assuming Unity is installed in the standard location, the path to UnityYAMLMerge will be:
C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Data\Tools\UnityYAMLMerge.exe
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\Unity\Editor\Data\Tools\UnityYAMLMerge.exe
…on Windows and
/Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/Tools/UnityYAMLMerge
…on Mac OSX (use the Show Package Contents command from the Finder to access this folder).
UnityYAMLMerge is shipped with a default fallback file (called mergespecfile.txt, also in the Tools folder) that specifies how it should proceed with unresolved conflicts or unknown files. This also allows you to use it as the main merge tool for version control systems (such as git) that don’t automatically select merge tools based on file extensions. The most common tools are already listed by default in mergespecfile.txt but you can edit this file to add new tools or change options.
You can run UnityYAMLMerge as a standalone tool from the command line (you can see full usage instructions by running it without any arguments). Set-up instructions for common version control systems are given below.
.unity
.merge -p %b %1 %2 %r
Then, follow the same procedure to add the .prefab
extension.
Add the following text to your .git
or .gitconfig
file:
[merge]
tool = unityyamlmerge
[mergetool "unityyamlmerge"]
trustExitCode = false
cmd = '<path to UnityYAMLMerge>' merge -p "$BASE" "$REMOTE" "$LOCAL" "$MERGED"
Add the following text to your .hgrc
file:
[merge-patterns]
**.unity = unityyamlmerge
**.prefab = unityyamlmerge
[merge-tools]
unityyamlmerge.executable = <path to UnityYAMLMerge>
unityyamlmerge.args = merge -p --force $base $other $local $output
unityyamlmerge.checkprompt = True
unityyamlmerge.premerge = False
unityyamlmerge.binary = False
Add the following to your ~/.subversion/config
file:
[helpers]
merge-tool-cmd = <path to UnityYAMLMerge>
.unity
in the extension field. <path to UnityYAMLMerge> merge -p %base %theirs %mine %merged
Then, follow the same procedure to add the .prefab
extension.
.unity
extension. <path to UnityYAMLMerge> merge -p "@basefile" "@sourcefile" "@destinationfile" "@output"
Then, follow the same procedure to add the .prefab
extension.
merge -p $BASE $REMOTE $LOCAL $MERGED
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