hi,
I would like to provide users with the ability to see that an SVN
repository is available for a given folder.
The purpose of this is to integrate SVN with MKS, a third party
revision control system. Though my suggested solution has other uses.
The idea would work as follows:
On the TortoiseSVN context menu, as well as EXPORT, there would be an
EXPORT-LINK menu item.
Clicking this this would create an executible or batch file in the
target location that would run nativley on Windows. The link file
would contain code that would perform as follows:
1: If ToroiseSVN is installed, then TortoiseSVN would be used to
check out the target given in the link into the current folder.
2: If Tortoise is not installed, but SVN is, then SVN client would
be used to do the same.
3: If neither is installed, then a dialog would explain that
TortoiseSVN or SVN client is missing and must be installed.
As well as the target, the link file would contain metadata on how to
check out that link, e.g. include exernals, sparse checkout etc.
This executible 'link' could be checked into the third party revision
control system. In this case, this system is MKS as it has very poor
handling of folders and file attributes, unlike SVN. Such a system
would allow adopting of SVN without having to immediately obsolete
MKS.
An extension to this would be to allow signing of the link executible
to ensure that the link file is genuine.
Perhaps the simplest way to implement this would be to allow some
means of extending Tortoise menu through plugins, and hand over the
above functionality to another program.
How easy would it be to make changes to TortoiseSVN to allow a third
party program to modify its context menu?
cheers,
the-moog.
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Received on 2008-09-08 10:29:04 CEST