SciTE extension allowing simple Git version control on local files. Based on debjan's SciTE Simple Version Control.
-- Supports Windows only.
-- Currently completely untested with SciTE's sessions feature - might work, might not. Double checking is on the 'TODO' list; as I don't use SciTE very often it probably won't happen unless requested.
This script uses spawner-ex.dll, found in scite-debug.zip at the scite-debug archive.
-- Note: This library is used to prevent cmd windows from popping up every time git.exe is executed, although the extension will work without it if all instances of spawner.popen() in the script are replaced with io.popen().
First, ensure your config settings are correct; these can be found in the config section at the top of the scipt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Git | Absolute path to git.exe (can be left as 'git.exe' if Git has System %PATH% entry). |
| spawner_path | Absolute path to spawner-ex.dll. |
| tortoise | Option to run through Tortoise GUI instead of using console commands. |
| TortoiseGit | Absolute path to TortoiseGitProc.exe (Required if Tortoise GUI option is enabled. Can be left as 'TortoiseGitProc.exe' if Tortoise Git has System %PATH% entry (it does by default)) |
| allow_destroy | Make destroy command available; as SciTE doesn't seem to allow confirmation dialogues it's recommended this is kept off. |
| command_number | Free SciTE command number slot; if you don't know what that means then you probably don't need to worry about it. |
From the toolbar select Options > Open Lua Startup Script and insert the following line into the file:
dofile("C:\\<path-to>\\SciTE_GIT.lua")
Once the file has been saved the extension should be working.
Open/go to the tab of document you want to add to Git and press the right mouse button. You should see a 'Git' option at the bottom of the context menu:
On selecting that the available commands window will open at the position of your caret:
If the tortoise option in the config section is set to trueall commands with the exception of Destroy will be handled by the Tortoise GUI. Otherwise all commands will be executed using the Windows command line.
When using git.exe all messages are displayed in SciTE's Output window. Git commit messages are entered using SciTE's strip dialogue at the bottom of the SciTE window:
