Re: git integration with monodevelop

["Govind Salinas" <govind@sophiasuchtig.com>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>
>> Recently, I've started learning C#. More for fun than anything else,
>> but one of the mono core devs sniffed me out and said they've been
>> thinking of porting jgit to C# to get a working IDE integration in
>> monodevelop. Currently, the only option available (with IDE
>> integration anyways) to the poor C# devs is either Microsoft's
>> crappy VSS, or the less crappy but still far from fantastic
>> Subversion.
>>
>> So in an effort to learn C#, I've decided to play along with this
>> (hopefully with some help from the MonoDevelop team), but it seems
>> to me that the best place to start is the fledgling libgit2 and link
>> that with git-sharp. The primary reason for this is ofcourse that I
>> think it'd be a terrible waste to have yet another from-scratch
>> implementation of git in a new language (ruby, java, C#, C...). The
>> secondary reason is that it would be neat to have more OSS projects
>> use my favourite scm.
>>
>> Besides, getting something to rely on libgit2 early on is probably
>> the best way to get more people interested in making development of
>> it proceed rapidly.
>>
>> Thoughts anyone?
>>
>> Please reply-to-all as this goes cross-list
>> (currently, Cc ae@op5.se, spearce@spearce.org, git@vger.kernel.org,
>> m.j.hutchinson@gmail.com, in case monodevelop-list uses reply-to
>> header).
>>
>
> Ouch. Scratch monodevelop-list from that Cc list. It appears to be
> members-only (although not listed as such on their list-server).
>

Hi,

I started working on a C# UI a long time ago but I abandoned it due
to lack of interest from others and time constraints.  You are welcome
to take it and build on it if you like.  It wraps the C git binaries and the UI
is separate from the "plumbing".

http://repo.or.cz/w/Widgit.git

-Govind