# Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) 11 messages from 2008-12-17 to 2008-12-19. Participants: Henk, Sverre Rabbelier, tekkub, Tim Visher, Geoffrey Lee, Frank Li, Peter Krefting. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16770 ## Henk, 2008-12-17 19:06 Subject: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: <1229540813648-1669264.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1229540813648-1669264.post%40n2.nabble.com ``` 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. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Announcement%3A-Git-Extensions-stable-%28windows-shell-extensions%29-tp1669264p1669264.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Sverre Rabbelier, 2008-12-17 19:23 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/bd6139dc0812171123p54d89209t14739540b92bd9e9%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1229540813648-1669264.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 20:06, Henk wrote: > 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. 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 ;). -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier ``` ## tekkub, 2008-12-17 19:51 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: <1229543462897-1669467.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1229543462897-1669467.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <1229540813648-1669264.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` 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: > > 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. > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Announcement%3A-Git-Extensions-stable-%28windows-shell-extensions%29-tp1669264p1669467.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Tim Visher, 2008-12-17 20:04 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c115fd3c0812171204ve560583w4c76aac0ac08d8ae%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1229540813648-1669264.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Henk wrote: > > 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. 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? -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail ``` ## Henk, 2008-12-17 20:56 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: <1229547366402-1669761.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1229547366402-1669761.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <1229543462897-1669467.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` tekkub wrote: > > Very nice, however I ran into the following error while trying to install: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/26681170@N03/3115836831/ > 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 -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Announcement%3A-Git-Extensions-stable-%28windows-shell-extensions%29-tp1669264p1669761.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Geoffrey Lee, 2008-12-18 00:53 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: <83d7aaa40812171653tcfa69eex23a22985fc23d3c5@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/83d7aaa40812171653tcfa69eex23a22985fc23d3c5%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1229540813648-1669264.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Henk wrote: > > 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. 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 ``` ## Frank Li, 2008-12-18 01:57 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: <1976ea660812171757s37e8435cxc4d34ade04635b81@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1976ea660812171757s37e8435cxc4d34ade04635b81%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` 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 : > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Henk wrote: >> >> 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. > > 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? > > -- > > In Christ, > > Timmy V. > > http://burningones.com/ > http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ``` ## Henk, 2008-12-18 08:09 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: <1229587749729-1672012.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1229587749729-1672012.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <1976ea660812171757s37e8435cxc4d34ade04635b81@mail.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: > > Great Work! > TortoiseGit start late. But it reuse many TortoiseSVN work. > I believe TortoiseGit can catch. > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Announcement%3A-Git-Extensions-stable-%28windows-shell-extensions%29-tp1669264p1672012.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Sverre Rabbelier, 2008-12-18 08:36 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/bd6139dc0812180036m4c70dea4gfe160a5fff1faf65%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1229587749729-1672012.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:09, Henk wrote: > 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. Perhaps you could consider contributing to libgit2 for this purpose, I reckon C# has some way to import C libraries, yes? -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier ``` ## Sverre Rabbelier, 2008-12-18 13:44 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/bd6139dc0812180544h2af10f9bsd76fb148bca1ee3e%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1976ea660812180540g5efbcb42oe498503216d8a3c9@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 14:40, Frank Li wrote: > I am considerring how to implement clone. > > I hope Git can provide a client library like SVN. > I see libgit2 project. I hope git itself should use the same library. 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. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier ``` ## Peter Krefting, 2008-12-19 10:36 Subject: Re: Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0812191134220.6540%40ds9.cixit.se In-Reply-To: <1229547366402-1669761.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` Henk: > 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. 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." -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ ```