RE: why not TortoiseGit

From: Li Frank <frank.li@freescale.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2008, 01:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7FD1F85C96D70C4A89DA1DF7667EAE961E7EF2@zch01exm23.fsl.freescale.net>
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Nigel Magnay:

I create a tortoisegit project at repo.or.cz. http://repo.or.cz/w/TortoiseGit.git

It is coming from TortoiseSVN. It is very early stage. The context menu have worked. TortoiseGitProc.exe help command have been worked.

Welcome contribute.

Best regards Frank Li

-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel Magnay [mailto:nigel.magnay@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 6:00 PM
To: Li Frank-B20596
Cc: Scott Chacon; Andreas Ericsson; Ian Hilt; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why not TortoiseGit

> I read some code of TortoiseSVN and TortoiseHg Code.
> At beginning, TortoiseGit can git command to get information like

Qgit.

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> After linkable library ready, replace "git command".
>
> I think TortoiseGit can start base on below way.
>
> 1.  Base on TortoiseHg, It is python Script.  Replace below hg 
> operator with Git.
> 2.  Base on TortoiseSVN, It is developed with C++. Need VS2008.
> ToritoiseSVN provide some built in diff and merge tools.
> 3.  Base on Qgit, which provide some basic UI, such comment dialogbox,

> history view and file annotate.
>
>

TortoiseSVN is a good place to start because it separates out the windows icon decorators into a separate DLL (shared with TortoiseCVS). This is significant, as these are a finite resource in the windows shell, and so having a TortoiseSVN + TortoiseGIT on one machine and you might run out, and I'd imagine lots of people wanting both.

On the minus side, building (Tortoise)SVN requires a lot of environment setup just to get it to build - most of which can be immediately thrown away as it's specific to SVN.

But it doesn't look like a hard project to me, just requires stripping out a lot of junk and re-patching callouts to a git executable (which could be the standard git tools) and a minimal git library that knows if files are dirty.