[Lazarus] Development of other revision control + easy searching through mailing list archives

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:45:46 +0200
Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 April 2012 10:20, Martin Schreiber  wrote:
> >>
> > A FPC based git frontend is here:
> > https://gitorious.org/mseuniverse/mseuniverse/trees/master/tools/msegit
> 
> 
> I might be wrong, but I think the original poster was referring to a
> "Source Code Management API" for Lazarus IDE, making it possible for
> the Lazarus IDE to manage projects stored in SubVersion, Git,
> Mercurial and so forth.

I agree that it makes no sense to create a separate IDE addon for each
VCS. Many GUI elements can be shared. 
I have no idea how a "Source Code Management API" should look like
though.

Dawson,
when you need some help about the IDE interface, just ask. 

 
> PS:
> If my assumption is correct, may I suggest those developers also have
> a look at other cross-platform IDE's like Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA (this
> one has good multiple SCM support), which has a SCM API for many years
> and which is not bound to the Microsoft Source Code Control (SCC) API.

+1

Mattias