Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions)

This is a shameless announcement of my latest personal project; Git
Extensions. Git Extensions is a Tortoise-like windows shell extension for
git. Yesterday I finished version 0.9, the first stable release. I included
about all git commands I know about, so I think it is pretty complete but
I'm open to suggestions. 
 
It is written mostly in C#, except for shell extension part which is written
in C++. The project is open source, the sources can be found on GitHub. In
case there is someone interrested in the sources, be warned; the sources are
not very well documented yet and the solution is a still bit messy, I will
clean this up very soon. 
 
Main features
- Shell extensions
- Visual studio plugin
- Seperate git application
 
Features:
- Browse repository (incl. visual graph)
- Add files
- Apply patch
- Checkout branch/revision
- Cherry pick
- Create branch/tag
- Delete branch/tag
- Clone
- Commit
- Create (format) patch
- Init new repository
- Merge branches
- Pull
- Push
- Run mergetool
- Stash
- View differences
 
Information about the project and a installer package can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/
The installation requires msysgit to be installed AND git.exe to in the
system path.

ps. I know there is a TortoiseGit project also, I just didn't know about that at the time I started. If I knew about TortoiseGit, I probably never started writing my own tool.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 20:06, Henk <henk_westhuis@hotmail.com> wrote:

It seems TortoiseGit started only recently and is not nearly as feature-complete as Git Extensions, so I wouldn't feel too bad in that regard ;).

Very nice, however I ran into the following error while trying to install: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26681170@N03/3115836831/

Can't wait to try it out! --tek

Henk wrote:

tekkub wrote:

I just rereleased a 0.9 version without the visual studio plugin. Too bad it causes problems, I will try to fix them soon. I was able to reproduce the error on my laptop, so thats a good start.

The new installer is downloadable here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=246547&package_id=300816 https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=246547&package_id=300816

Henk:

I tried with the 0.91 version but ran into a different problem:

  "The system cannot open the device or file specified."

followed by

  "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this
   package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code
   is 2755."

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Henk <henk_westhuis@hotmail.com> wrote:

Nice! With all of this TortoiseGit-like activity we're bound to have something pretty usable pretty quickly! :) I'll have to check out the sources soon and see if I can get involved. Maybe any of the developers who were planning on working on TortoiseGit could officially move over to Git Extensions since it seems to be much further along?

Great Work! TortoiseGit start late. But it reuse many TortoiseSVN work. I believe TortoiseGit can catch.

Best regards Frank Li

2008/12/18 Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>:

If you have problems during development, please ask, I might allready encountered some. Especially when you are starting on the features that need userinteraction like push/pull/clone/mergetool. These cannot just be run as a command and catching the standard output. In the version of GitExtensions I published I just run the commands, but I allready have a prototype build in c# combined with some c++ that directly calls some (exported) Git functions. Just executing git.exe is the fastest way of creating a gui, but its not the best way of doiing things.

Li Frank wrote:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:09, Henk <henk_westhuis@hotmail.com> wrote:

Perhaps you could consider contributing to libgit2 for this purpose, I reckon C# has some way to import C libraries, yes?

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Henk <henk_westhuis@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'm curious... How are you dealing with Windows' low limit on icon overlay handlers? TortoiseSVN already hits the system limit, hence their development of TortoiseOverlay to provide a common icon overlay handler for all the Tortoise* projects. Have you gotten GitExtensions to work side-by-side with TortoiseSVN? You might want to take a look at this document, username "guest" and no password:

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/trunk/src/TortoiseOverlays/Documentation.txt

-Geoffrey Lee

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 14:40, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:

The goal of libgit2 is to provide a library that git will use itself for basic object manipulation. I do not know if operations like clone are planned.