1. In a computing environment, a method of resolving conflicting changes to structured data files, the method comprising: for a structured data file which has both a generic structure and dialects built on top of the generic structure, for which conflicting changes have been made, and where an original version of the structured data, a first version of the structured data and a second version of the structured data exist, determining a dialect of the structured data; and based on the determined dialect performing at least one of merge or diff operations on the original version of the structured text data, the first version of the structured text data and the second version of the structured text data.