From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Govind Salinas" Subject: Re: git integration with monodevelop Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:00:01 -0600 Message-ID: <5d46db230811121600p14557d79l5977cd072fd06532@mail.gmail.com> References: <491AAE6D.8030304@op5.se> <491AB078.6020208@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git Mailing List" , "Shawn Pearce" , "Michael Hutchinson" To: "Andreas Ericsson" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 13 01:01:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0PeG-0001zB-Cl for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:01:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752861AbYKMAAG (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:00:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752771AbYKMAAG (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:00:06 -0500 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.25]:47801 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064AbYKMAAC (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:00:02 -0500 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so398101qwe.37 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.214.78.2 with SMTP id a2mr10472953qab.136.1226534401126; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.214.217.4 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <491AB078.6020208@op5.se> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Andreas Ericsson 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