[Geany] GITdiff plugin, need help

[Nick Treleaven]

On 05/11/07 17:46:14, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> 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.

I thought that as Geany has diff filetype support a diff plugin makes 
sense with support for any VC system that has a simple 'vc diff path' 
style command.

As for the other actions, I'm not keen to see them really. But perhaps 
it could be done in a flexible way - just listing the commands and 
command names to run for each VC system:
Add - $vcbin add $file
Update - $vcbin up
Revert - $vcbin revert $file

Commands more complex than this IMO might be best not supported - just 
use the CLI for commit, checkout.

That way there would be much less duplication of effort and feature 
requests for different VC support could be implemented much easier.

Regards,
Nick