A CVS plugin

[fabiochelly]

Wouldn't there be a developer good enough to create a CVS client plugin?
I think it would be very useful and not very difficult to create as there just need to execute cvs.exe in backend and capture the output.
Unfortunately, I don't know CVS enough to develop it by myself.

[Clo]

fabiochelly

Unfortunately, I don't know CVS enough to develop it by myself

Huummm, if you explain me in brief what is CVS, I could send requests to my programmer-friends...
Please, could you answer via a subject on the French forum too (it sleeps!)
Friendly,
Claude
Clo

[yurig]

2fabiochelly:

I was thinking of writting a CVS plugin... It looks like it must be a combination of FS, archive and search plugin, as it must be able to:
- show CVS project structure
- show version info for a particular file
- checkout (and maybe commit) specified versions of the file
- search for files based on CVS attributes - at least, for uncommited files

Without the search features, the plugin will be of no value (for me, at least). So, let's wait for search plugin API that Christian promised in some future version.

[SUKER]

2yurig

search for files based on CVS attributes - at least, for uncommited files

Without the search features, the plugin will be of no value (for me, at least). So, let's wait for search plugin API that Christian promised in some future version.

Yes.
Also, very important feature is diff different version of the file...

[lord]

Hi!
There is a nice CVS client tool "tortoise" which is made as a Windows Explorer plugin. Works also fine inside TC with it's rightmouse menues.

Only thing missing here is the colorization of the file icons.

[SUKER]

2lord

Only thing missing here is the colorization of the file icons.

And THIS made "tortoise" unusable under tc

[ghisler(Author)]

In the Tortoise source code, there is a note that the icons only work in Explorer, because of a bug in Windows which would crash other programs...

[djek]

Only thing missing here is the colorization of the file icons.
And THIS made "tortoise" unusable under tc

I disagree.
Whenever I wish so see the fancy icons, I just open the folder in explorer.
rightclick ... explore
or press alt-enter to view the properties of a file or folder.

the icons are only an extra

and that is about the only time I start the explorer.

[glox]

Besides what the comment within TortoiseCVS says...there are other file managers performing the icon overlay function. In my search, I found AB Commander.

It seems that it should be possible...

Greg

[djek]

In the Tortoise source code, there is a note that the icons only work in Explorer, because of a bug in Windows which would crash other programs...

From the tortoisecvs-users mailinglist

On a reply to why the icon colorizations don't work:
Because it does not implement the IShellIconOverlayIdentifier interface
which Explorer uses to query the overlay icons.

Apparently, recent versions of Total Commander (previously known as
Windows Commander) implement the interface (I do not use TC myself, so I
may be wrong).

Apperently he is wrong, but it is possible

[ghisler(Author)]

2glox
What icon overlays work in AB Commander? Does TortoiseCVS work?

[Norbert]

Should icon overlays work with Total Commander? I have tried TortoiseCVS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/), MP3Ext (http://odin.mutschler.de/mp3ext/) and PixVue (http://www.pixvue.com) and the icon overlays of all this programs are not shown in Total Commander. But they are shown in Windows Explorer and Speed Commander 10.

Regards
Norbert

[Hacker]

Norbert,
Um die Icons bei MP3ext zu kriegen, musst du bei der MP3-Assoziierung "%1" als Icon eingeben.

HTH
Roman

[Norbert]

Hacker,

thanks for the trick, MP3Ext is working now.

Norbert

[Hacker]

And BTW those icons are not overlays.

HTH
Roman