SVN plugin

[Vladimir Prus]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 09:11, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:24:23PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Monday 06 November 2006 14:25, Megan Webb wrote:
> > > Is there a maintainer for the svn plugin?
> > >
> > > I submitted a patch for the diff command for now.
> > >
> > > I know there's a feature freeze, so don't want to do too much
> > > there now.
> > >
> > > I think there is room to improve this plugin, and since I've started
> > > using it, am willing to take this on if no one else is working on it..
> > >
> > > Is  working on a new/upgraded svn plugin?
> > >
> > > Please let me know so we don't duplicate efforts..
> >
> > FWIW, I have a student, Alexander Lyubitskiy, that is working on SVN GUI
> > frontend, and there are plans to eventually make a KDevelop (4) plugin
> > out of it.
> >
> > One important goal is to simplify handling of diffs and commits. For
> > example, commit should pop up a window with entire diff where you can
> > specify comments for individual changes, and exclude specific changes
> > from commit, without going to other windows or manually reverting
> > changes.
> >
> > Long-term plans include support for local history, and UI for merging
> > changes between branches.
> >
> > I'm not sure what's the right approach for cooperation would be -- for
> > now, this project is completely standalone, and not ready for practical
> > use. Maybe a Wiki with ideas would be good?
> >
> > - Volodya
>
> I don't think a GUI frontend for SVN matters for us unless there's going to
> be an api provided for it that we can use in KDevelop. 

Have you missed the

    make a KDevelop (4) plugin out of it.

part in my email. I certainly don't propose to launch a separate program from 
KDevelop ;-)

> I'd like to see some 
> tighter integration with source control in KDevelop 4 compared to the 3.x
> series 

Certainly.

> and I guess I need to organize my thoughts on that subject and put 
> them on the KDevelop wiki.

Ok, great.

- Volodya