Lua script, as SciTE extension that allows simple version control on local files.
Supported versioning system are Git and Mercurial.
Supported Operating System is Windows.
Except obvious requirements (SciTE and versioning system) script requires spawner.dll (can be found i.e. in scite-debug archive as spawner-ex.dll) which takes care of "silent" command execution (no popup windows).
Script can be installed by executing from Lua startup script:
dofile("C:\\<path-to>\\SciTE_VC.lua")
or by copying the script in scite_lua folder, in case of using extman.lua.
Setting the script is provided by editing setting table inside the script:
setting = {
Hg = "hg.exe",
Git = "c:/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin/git.exe",
TortoiseHg = "thg.exe",
TortoiseGit = "TortoiseGitProc.exe",
spawner_path = "lua/spawner.dll",
allow_destroy = true,
tortoise = false,
dialog = true,
command_number = 30,
}| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Hg | Path to hg.exe (if available and not in %PATH%) |
| Git | Path to git.exe (if available and not in %PATH%) |
| TortoiseHg | Path to thg.exe, if using Tortoise is enabled |
| TortoiseGit | Path to TortoiseGitProc.exe, if using Tortoise is enabled |
| spawner_path | Path to spawner.dll |
| allow_destroy | Option to make destroy command available |
| tortoise | Option to run through Tortoise GUI dialogs instead console |
| dialog | Option to use SciTE strip wrapper dialog for commit massage (overrides existing) |
| command_number | SciTE command number free slot |
While editing file, version control can be initialized by selecting Version Control context menu:
After clicking on it, calltip pops with available versioning system initializers:
By clicking on one of available initializers, edited file is automatically added to a versioning system and committed with init message.
Depending on edited file status, Version Control context menu, will provide appropriate commands. For example, if we make some edits and save the file, then we'll have these commands available:
Because the file status is [M]odified.
Regardless of versioning system used, workflow is identical with either Git or Mercurial.
If we select Commit command and dialog value in setting table is set to true, we are offered to supply commit message in strip dialog:
While if dialog option is set to false, Notepad will open with temporary file for commit message as set by versioning system. And of course if Tortoise is used, then all communication will be through Tortoise GUI dialogs instead SciTE output pane.
If option allow_destroy is set to true, additional command will be available that can delete project index folder (.git or .hg) thus destroying versioning project irreversibly.
