gitproj-diff

Easy links for your git project diffs!

Purpose

git-project enables smooth project and sub-repository management when all component repositories are rapidly changing. Unfortunately, when sub-repositories change, this only shows up in the parent repo as a one line diff with the old and new commit references.

This chrome extension turns those one line diffs in github into links that take you directly to the compare view in the sub-repo.

Installation

This extension may be installed as an unpacked extension in developer mode:

1. Navigate to chrome://extensions
2. Check "Developer mode" box
3. Click "Load unpacked extension..."
4. Navigate to and select the gitproj-diff/ folder

You may also need to set up aliases. This is a dictionary of library nickname keys and actual library name values.

For example, if your .gitproj file looks like:

version: 0.1.0
repos:
       MSR deps/my-sub-repo git@github.com:org/my-sub-repo.git
states:
       MSR dev bea52b0fde4a896139b1526b457837b07e6dd987

you need to set up:

...
var aliases = {
    "MSR": "my-sub-repo",
}
...

Limitations

• All repositories and sub-repositories must be under the same user/org.
• Changes to github HTML will most likely break this extension.
• The Javascript code isn't exceptionally beautiful...

Acknowledgments

This extension was originally based on a template created by Tom Maxwell, available here.