* custom link type for files in a git repo
@ 2008-10-06 4:38 Austin Frank
2008-10-07 2:01 ` Rick Moynihan
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From: Austin Frank @ 2008-10-06 4:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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Hey org-folk--
I originally included this in my questions to John and Carsten about the
new attach system, but decided it deserved its own thread. Apologies if
this seems like too much git-spam.
Now that org and git are starting to be used in conjunction by more and
more of us, would anyone else find it useful to have a custom link type
for linking to git objects?
I could imagine that calling org-store-link on a file or directory that
is in a git repo could link to the current HEAD version, and we could
have access to all of the information from calling git-log on the file
(commit, author, date, message). Similarly, we'd want to be able to
link to arbitrary objects in the repo's history (tags, particular
commits, merge points, etc).
I think most of this could be done via git.el that is distributed with
git. One cool application of this would be a git post-commit-hook that
called remember to create a link to the new commit in the relevant
project file. This would be a really neat way to keep a timeline for a
particular project's commits right alongside all of the other
information stored in org. I can also see it being really useful to
link to a particular version of a non-org file within some org notes.
That file might change, making it difficult to interpret some notes or
making specific line numbers irrelevant, but a link to the exact version
being discussed would make such notes future proof.
I think I could probably get at least a skeleton of these kinds of
functions working myself, but I won't be able to get to it until the
winter holidays. If these ideas scratch the itches of another org user
who wants to code this up, I promise I'll a) use it b) praise your
awesomeness, and c) buy you a beer if we're ever in the same city.
Thoughts? Other features that could go into this?
Thanks,
/au
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* Re: custom link type for files in a git repo
2008-10-06 4:38 custom link type for files in a git repo Austin Frank
@ 2008-10-07 2:01 ` Rick Moynihan
2008-10-07 7:20 ` Ian Barton
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rick Moynihan @ 2008-10-07 2:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Austin Frank; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
2008/10/6 Austin Frank <austin.frank@gmail.com>:
--- snip ---
>
> Now that org and git are starting to be used in conjunction by more and
> more of us, would anyone else find it useful to have a custom link type
> for linking to git objects?
Absolutely!! git is my new favourite tool, and being able to combine
org-mode and git in a usable workflow would be a great idea!
> I could imagine that calling org-store-link on a file or directory that
> is in a git repo could link to the current HEAD version, and we could
> have access to all of the information from calling git-log on the file
> (commit, author, date, message). Similarly, we'd want to be able to
> link to arbitrary objects in the repo's history (tags, particular
> commits, merge points, etc).
This sounds like it'd be handy, as I've already found myself pasting
git SHA's into org-mode! So having these (plus a path to a local
repo) link to the specific commits would be awesome. More than this
though I want integration with git commit messages!
> I think most of this could be done via git.el that is distributed with
> git. One cool application of this would be a git post-commit-hook that
> called remember to create a link to the new commit in the relevant
> project file.
Yeah, this sounds like exactly what I'd want! :-) Ideally it'd also
be branch aware. And I can imagine that having each commit as an
outline with a tag of the branch name and a property drawer containing
the SHA (as a link) would be enough for a start!
It'd make sense to follow the git tradition of having the first line
of the commit message default to the outline's title in org.
> This would be a really neat way to keep a timeline for a
> particular project's commits right alongside all of the other
> information stored in org. I can also see it being really useful to
> link to a particular version of a non-org file within some org notes.
> That file might change, making it difficult to interpret some notes or
> making specific line numbers irrelevant, but a link to the exact version
> being discussed would make such notes future proof.
This would probably be quite handy too, though I think getting commits
into the agenda would be better :-)
> I think I could probably get at least a skeleton of these kinds of
> functions working myself, but I won't be able to get to it until the
> winter holidays. If these ideas scratch the itches of another org user
> who wants to code this up, I promise I'll a) use it b) praise your
> awesomeness, and c) buy you a beer if we're ever in the same city.
>
> Thoughts? Other features that could go into this?
>
> Thanks,
> /au
>
>
> --
> Austin Frank
> http://aufrank.net
> GPG Public Key (D7398C2F): http://aufrank.net/personal.asc
R.
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* Re: custom link type for files in a git repo
2008-10-07 2:01 ` Rick Moynihan
@ 2008-10-07 7:20 ` Ian Barton
2008-10-07 10:55 ` Jason F. McBrayer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ian Barton @ 2008-10-07 7:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rick Moynihan; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
>> Now that org and git are starting to be used in conjunction by more and
>> more of us, would anyone else find it useful to have a custom link type
>> for linking to git objects?
>
> Absolutely!! git is my new favourite tool, and being able to combine
> org-mode and git in a usable workflow would be a great idea!
>
Without wishing to start a VCS war, it would be nice if any org
interface was as tool agnostic as possible. I use bzr, mainly because I
use Ubuntu and it's what Canonical use. I am sure there are other people
who use Hg, etc.
Ian.
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* Re: custom link type for files in a git repo
2008-10-07 7:20 ` Ian Barton
@ 2008-10-07 10:55 ` Jason F. McBrayer
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From: Jason F. McBrayer @ 2008-10-07 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> writes:
>>> Now that org and git are starting to be used in conjunction by more and
>>> more of us, would anyone else find it useful to have a custom link type
>>> for linking to git objects?
>>
>> Absolutely!! git is my new favourite tool, and being able to combine
>> org-mode and git in a usable workflow would be a great idea!
>>
> Without wishing to start a VCS war, it would be nice if any org
> interface was as tool agnostic as possible. I use bzr, mainly because
> I use Ubuntu and it's what Canonical use. I am sure there are other
> people who use Hg, etc.
Since emacs already abstracts basic VCS functionality through its vc
interface, it would be nice if any org-vcs integration would use that.
I use three vc systems on a regular basis (svn at work, hg for my own
projects, and git for other peoples' projects that I track).
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