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About

geanyvc is plugin that provides a uniform way of accessing the different version-control systems inside Geany IDE. Only small subset of vc is implemented, but, hey, you don't need anything besides diff, log, status, revert and commit most time.

In order to use it you need Geany 0.19.

Features

geanyvc currently support the following version control systems:

Bazaar, GIT, Mercurial, Subversion, SVK: 

* diff file
* diff directory
* diff base directory
* blame
* log file
* log directory
* log base directory
* status
* revert file
* revert directory
* revert base directory
* show unmodified original file
* add file
* remove file
* update
* commit

CVS: 

* diff file
* diff directory
* diff base directory
* log file
* log directory
* log base directory
* status
* revert file
* revert directory
* revert base directory
* update
* commit

Requirements

For compiling the plugin yourself, you will need the GTK (>= 2.6.0) libraries and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries and header files, such as Pango, Glib and ATK. All these files are available at http://www.gtk.org. If you like to use spellchecking for your commit messages you will also need gtkspell (>=2.0), but this is only optional.

And obviously, you will need have Geany installed. If you have Geany installed from the sources, you should be ready to go. If you used a prepared package e.g. from your distribution you probably need to install an additional package, this might be called geany-dev or geany-devel. Please note that in order to compile and use this plugin, you need Geany 0.19 or later.

Furthermore you need, of course, a C compiler and the Make tool. The GNU versions of these tools are recommended.

Usage

After compiling and/or installing geanyvc, start Geany and go to menu Tools->Plugin Manager and set checkbox at VC plugin.

You can configure the following options:

If this option is activated, every new by the VC-plugin created document tab will be marked as changed. Even thus this option is useful in some cases, it could cause a big number of sometimes annoying "Do you want to save"-dialogs.

Shows a confirmation dialog on adding a new (created) file to VCS. If not set you will not see dialog "Do you want to add <file>?"

If this option is activated, commit dialog will fit the full size of your monitor. If it is not set commit dialog size will be 700x500.

If this option is activated and you have meld, kompare, kdiff3, diffuse or tkdiff available from command line, one of these program will be used to show differences for "Diff From Current File" command.

geanyvc detect if opened file is in version control by checking directories and executing commands from version control systems toolchain. These options disable checking for particular version control system. Disabling not required ones can speed up things. So it is recommended to activate svk only if you want to use it, since it is quiet slow.

License

geanyvc is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program.

Ideas, questions, patches and bug reports

If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u' format) to the geany mailing list or to one of the authors listed bellow.

Coding

Use static functions where possible. Try to use GLib types and functions - e.g. g_free instead of free and try to use only GLib 2.6 and GTK 2.6 functions. At least for the moment, we want to keep the minimum requirement for GTK at 2.6.

Style

The file indent-all.sh contains information about the current code style. Run this script before commit.

Download

geanyvc is part of the combined Geany Plugins release. For more information and downloads, please visit //plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/

Development Code

Get the code from: 

svn checkout http://geany-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geany-plugins/trunk/geany-plugins

-- 2007-2010 by Yura Siamashka and Frank Lanitz yurand2(at)gmail(dot)com frank(at)frank(dot)uvena(dot)de