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Title: Version control plug-in
Post by: dushara on November 20, 2010, 04:55:21 am

Hi all,

I'm working on a version control plug-in (git) but have hit a small hurdle. How do I work out the project file path? I went through some of the header files (cbproject.h etc), but I can't see an obvious way. I need it for 2 reasons.

1. In order to check-in the project file itself to the repo.
2. git seems to require the CWD to be within the directory where .git exists.

Thanks in advance.
D

Title: Re: Version control plug-in
Post by: oBFusCATed on November 20, 2010, 11:04:25 am

Code

virtual wxString GetBasePath() const; ///< Read the target's base path, e.g. if GetFilename() returns "/usr/local/bin/xxx", base path will return "/usr/local/bin"

Have you tried this method?

Title: Re: Version control plug-in
Post by: dushara on November 21, 2010, 10:01:44 am

Quote from: oBFusCATed on November 20, 2010, 11:04:25 am

Code

virtual wxString GetBasePath() const; ///< Read the target's base path, e.g. if GetFilename() returns "/usr/local/bin/xxx", base path will return "/usr/local/bin"

Have you tried this method?

No I didn't see that. Thanks.

D

Title: Re: Version control plug-in
Post by: cacb on November 21, 2010, 11:31:32 am

Quote from: dushara on November 20, 2010, 04:55:21 am

Hi all,

I'm working on a version control plug-in (git) ....

That is interesting, I have been missing some way to use version control from within Code::Blocks. I hope your plugin will be general enough to support also other version control systems than git? For example, I prefer Bazaar with the QBZR gui front end, as it offers the same functionality on Windows and Linux.

Perhaps this can serve as inspiration to your work: Without a proper plugin for this purpose, I have used the Code::Blocks Tools menu to make a "plugin" supporting QBZR version control. The result is a Code::Blocks Tools menu looking like this (on Linux):

(http://arnholm.org/cpde/codeblocks/CB_tools_menu_ux.gif)

The definition of the tools are stored in the Code::Blocks default.config file. As I use several machines, I had to figure out a way to move the definitions from one machine to the other, i.e. edit the .config file manually. This is described in the link below
http://arnholm.org/cpde/codeblocks/CB_tools_menu.zip (http://arnholm.org/cpde/codeblocks/CB_tools_menu.zip)

So far it seems to work, but it could be more elegant. Perhaps your plugin is the answer. But in fact a slight improvement to the Tools menu facility would almost seem good enough
- Some way to define a submenu in the Tools menu
- Some way to export/import submenus to/from XML files, allowing for definitions to be moved to other machines.

This way, one could have a for example cb_tools_qbzr.xml file containing definitions for QBZR version control commands that would be installed as a submenu under Tools. Or even better, do something similar with your source control plugin. I am guessing you need to save some configuration data, so quite possibly similar requirements apply.

Looking forward to hear about your progress with this plugin!

Title: Re: Version control plug-in
Post by: oBFusCATed on November 21, 2010, 11:51:09 am

Quote from: cacb on November 21, 2010, 11:31:32 am

- Some way to export/import submenus to/from XML files, allowing for definitions to be moved to other machines.

Have you tried cb_share_config? It comes with the C::B's installation.

Title: Re: Version control plug-in
Post by: cacb on November 21, 2010, 12:37:11 pm

Quote from: oBFusCATed on November 21, 2010, 11:51:09 am

Have you tried cb_share_config? It comes with the C::B's installation.

No, I wasn't aware of it, thanks! I checked it now and find it is available on both my windows and linux installations. Nice tool!

However, as far as i can tell it will copy ALL of the tools definitions from one config file to another, and that will not work for the case I described where some of the tools are platform specific (e.g. the external debugger tools in my example), and some are portable (the QBZR tools). I would still have to manually hack the .config files. But if the Tools menu would allow submenus, and if you could select/copy such submenus using cb_share_config, it would be almost the same as what I suggested. It would probably be good enough for much of my needs.

Still I think a generic source control plugin sounds like a great idea, especially if it could be configured in much the same way as the tools menu.

Title: Re: Version control plug-in
Post by: dushara on November 22, 2010, 10:30:05 am

At the moment it's specific to git because it will be parsing the output of the git commands (e.g. git status --porcelain) to work out how to display the status of the project files. It may be possible to write a wrapper script to simulate the output of git.

But I'm getting ahead of myself here. It's still at the early stages right now.

Dushara.

Title: Re: Version control plug-in
Post by: dmoore on November 22, 2010, 04:06:37 pm

Quote from: cacb on November 21, 2010, 11:31:32 am

So far it seems to work, but it could be more elegant. Perhaps your plugin is the answer. But in fact a slight improvement to the Tools menu facility would almost seem good enough
- Some way to define a submenu in the Tools menu
- Some way to export/import submenus to/from XML files, allowing for definitions to be moved to other machines.

The PowerShell (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,10060.0.html) plugin does exactly this (actually, import/export is to a flat file not xml). It's in need of a UI cleanup, suggetions welcome

Title: Re: Version control plug-in
Post by: cacb on November 22, 2010, 08:44:32 pm

Quote from: dmoore on November 22, 2010, 04:06:37 pm

The PowerShell (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,10060.0.html) plugin does exactly this (actually, import/export is to a flat file not xml). It's in need of a UI cleanup, suggetions welcome

I have Code::Blocks 6840 (Win XP) and 6853 (Linux Kubuntu), but there is no PowerShell plugin included as far as I can tell. Is there a simple way I can get it without having to rebuild the IDE? I prefer to use the prebuilt Nightly Builds on Win and Linux.