マージ (romanised: Māji, English translation: merge) is a dirt-simple tool to merge JSON files.
maji: Merge one or more files into the first file mentioned.- Warning: You should back-up both files prior to ensure no data is lost in the event that the merge isn't how you expected it to be.
- Example:
maji files original.json patch1.json patch2.json
Q: Why did you make this? Two reasons: needed to merge rules for Ella and wanted to try out Newtonsoft after all these years. The last time I played with Visual Studio was 2013, and before that I used Visual Studio 2008 (I feel old).
Q: Is this Windows exclusive? Does it work in Wine? Why? Technically: yes, this only works on Windows. I have seen mentions that installing .NET Framework 4.7.1 (see here) can resolve issues with Newtonsoft in Wine, but I can't guarantee it. As far as I'm aware, there aren't any other well-crafted JSON libraries outside of Json.NET for C#.
Q: Will you create a native version for macOS, Linux, and BSD? If it does not work at all on Linux, then I likely will write a v2 of マージ for that reason. What it would be written in is beyond me, as I want to keep experimenting with random tools and languages.
Q: The git history shows you tried to add strings. Where are they now? I quickly realised it wasn't practical. People would have to manually escape all the quotation marks in their JSON, which would be a lot to ask of anyone. For that reason, I kept only support for converting files.