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  <title>Preface</title>
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    <para>
      When working on a project, either an open-source project where
      several people review your code, or a commercial
      project where you sell a component with your source code, there will
      be people and customers who find bugs or want to improve your
      project. To do that they send you patches which you have to review
      and decide if you want to apply them.
    </para>
    <para>
      TortoiseMerge helps you with both those tasks:
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          <para>
            Reviewing patches
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Applying the patches
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </para>
    <para>
      TortoiseMerge also helps you to sort out conflicted files which can
      occur if you're working with a source control system and others
      are working on the same files as you.
    </para>
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    <title>TortoiseMerge is free!</title>
    <para>
      TortoiseMerge is free. You don't have to pay for it, you can use it
      any way you want. It is developed under the GP license (GPL).
    </para>
    <para>
      TortoiseMerge is an Open Source project. That means you have full
      read access to the source code of this program. You can browse it
      on this link
      <ulink url="https://osdn.net/projects/tortoisesvn/scm/svn/">
        <citetitle>https://osdn.net/projects/tortoisesvn/scm/svn/</citetitle>
      </ulink>.
      The most recent version (where we're currently working) is located under
      <filename>/trunk/</filename>,
      and the released versions are located under
      <filename>/tags/</filename>.
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  <sect1 id="tme-preface-acknowledgements">
    <title>Acknowledgments</title>
    <para>
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        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            Stefan Küng
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              for the hard work on TortoiseMerge
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            Lübbe Onken
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              for the beautiful icons, logo, bug hunting and
              taking care of the documentation
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            The Tigris Style project
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              for some of the styles which are reused in this
              documentation
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            Our Contributors
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              for the patches, bug reports and new ideas, and for
              helping others by answering questions on our mailing list.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>
            Our Donators
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              for many hours of joy with the music they sent us
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </para>
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