Re: Subversion support for nautilus available in the near future?

[Matthew Jones <mattjones berkeley edu>]

Hi - its not actually TortoiseSVN-style subversion support, although, i
guess, that could be possible. It's intended as a more background system
of versioning directories, without the user aware of all the
implementation details (ie .svn/CVS/{arch} folders). You can read more
about it here: http://triplehelix.org/~matt/rcs-mockups.html
I should be finished by september 1st (its a summer of code project),
but, at the moment, nothing works. I should have a working (read-only)
svn gnome-vfs method by sometime this week (wednesday, maybe?).

--Matt

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 03:06 +0200, Buttchereit, Axel (XL) wrote:
> Hello group,
> 
> browsing the GNOME CVS repository I found that someone (Matt Jones)
> is working on a "subversion" or rather general "revision control"
> interface for nautilus.
> 
> I would LOVE to use a frontend like TortoiseSVN (Windows-only)
> on my linux/gnome desktop.
> 
> Does someone know when this feature will be released?
> 
> Cheers,
> Axel
> 
> 
> > * From: Chris Campbell <chris rockpaper ca>
> > * To: nautilus-list gnome org
> > * Subject: Nautilus-SVN
> > * Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 19:58:12 -0700
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I had the idea to write a Nautilus component more or less mirroring what
> > the TortoiseSVN (and ToroiseCVS) do for Windows Explorer.
> > 
> > In case you're not familiar with these open source projects, here are
> > the relevant links:
> > 
> >   TortoiseSVN - http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
> > 
> >   TortoiseCVS - http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
> > 
> > They are "shell extensions" for Windows Explorer that provide some
> > version control capabilities -- such as the ability to add and remove
> > files from version control, to update and commit changes, etc. -- using
> > Subversion and CVS, respectively, for the version control.
> > 
> > What I envision is basically an extension to the functionality provided
> > by the FMListView component.  In addition to the standard [ File name,
> > Size, Type, Date Modified ] columns there would also be some
> > Subversion-related columns:  [ SVN Status, SVN Revision, ... ]  There
> > would also be some context-menu items for adding/updating/committing
> > files, etc.
> > 
> > I'm writing to this list to get people's thoughts on this idea and also
> > some suggestions for how to approach it from a programming perspective. 
> > I'm a competent programmer but have no GNOME programming experience. 
> > I've read Alexander Larsson's document "Nautilus - Inside the shell"
> > which I found here:
> > 
> > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/nautilus/nautilus-internals.pdf
> > 
> >>From that document I gleaned that I probably want to write a new
> > NautilusView.  The document mentions that this is quite a lot of work,
> > however, and I'm hoping that subclassing FMListView will save me some
> > time.  (I will want to retain most of the FMListView functionality
> > anyway, I think.)
> > 
> > Please let me know your thoughts.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > --Chris
> > 
>