From: Austin Frank <austin.frank@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: custom link type for files in a git repo
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:38:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0wsgme3sw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
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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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Austin Frank
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-06 4:38 Austin Frank [this message]
2008-10-07 2:01 ` custom link type for files in a git repo Rick Moynihan
2008-10-07 7:20 ` Ian Barton
2008-10-07 10:55 ` Jason F. McBrayer
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