Source Control Management Plugin

This plugin provides base functionality that allows you to easily add support for any source control management system while saving you from having to re-implement editor integration. It uses Lite XL process api to allow async calling of the SCM binaries.

You can easily implement your own SCM backend by extending plugins.scm.backend, the plugin will take care of the rest for you. Currently it ships with the following backends:

• Git
• Fossil

Any of the backends listed above can serve you as an example or template to implement your own.

Usage and Requirements

You will need to have the SCM binaries installed and accesible from your PATH environment variable:

• git - for projects versioned in git
• fossil - for projects versioned in fossil
• language_diff plugin - optional but recommended
• Widgets - for confirmation messages, etc...

Follow the usual plugin installation procedure. When opening projects the backend will be auto detected by using the backend's detect() method. Then it will be associated to the project for subsequente use.

Features

• Support for multiple projects (not tested).
• Show current branch and stats on status bar.
• View the current project diff on a new doc view by executing the scm:global-diff command or clicking on the status bar SCM item.
• Colorize the treeview files depending on the item status which can be:
  • added
  • renamed
  • deleted,
  • edited
  • untracked
• Draw file changes on the doc view which includes:
  • additions
  • deletions
  • modifications
• Display blame information for active document line.
  • View the diff changes for the associated commit.

TODO

There is still missing functionality, but some of the following comes to mind:

• Pull and push
• detecting if the SCM binaries are missing
• maybe... allow configuring the SCM binaries path
• maybe colorize tabs text depending on the file status
• restoring a file to a previous state
• view the commit history of project or file
• view diff of a specific file: scm:file-diff
• add, rename and remove files in version control
• be able to commit current changes

Suggestions for how to implement the above features are welcome as other ideas not listed above.

Credits

Thanks to the authors of gitdiff, gitstatus and gitblame which code served as a source of copy-pasting and inspiration!