[Geany] GITdiff plugin, need help

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Mon Nov 5 17:46:14 UTC 2007


On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:30:50 +0100, Tim Tassonis <timtas at cubic.ch>
wrote:

> >>
> >> It shouldn't matter wich technology is behind it all...
> > 
> > In future I think there should just be one plugin, say VCdiff for
> > all common version control systems. The behaviour should be very
> > similar, just with different command names, which could be stored
> > in an array. Then the user just sets an option for the VC they want
> > (or perhaps it could even be autodetected by looking for
> > CVS/.svn/.hg/... subdirectories).
> 
> 
> I'm not so sure this is a very good idea and worth the effort.
> Although a lot of VC's share some stuff, they do have their
> specialities, apart from a different command line syntax.
> 
> I don't know which way the coders of those plugins want to take, but
> if they want to add further VC operations support apart from diff 
> (checkout,commit spring to my mind) I imagine that things would get
> more complicated by putting everything under one hood instead of
> having a separate plugin for each VC.
Yes, it would be fine to have one diff plugin for some VCs or one
plugin with more actions than only diff specialised for one VC.
Supporting many operations(commit, add, update, diff, revert,
checkout, ...) for many VCs would probably cause more effort than
necessary.

Regards,
Enrico

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