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chrisparnin / autogit

Automatic git checkins
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Why not go command-line? #2

Closed darrencauthon closed 10 years ago

darrencauthon commented 10 years ago

autogit seems like a great idea. But I'm wondering... why not make it a command-line based app? It could be used for editing all sorts of files if it wasn't glued to VS or Sublime.

darrencauthon commented 10 years ago

Or to put it another way.... everybody could use this with any editor if it was a command-line tool. Then support for more advanced IDEs could be added to give even more support.

chrisparnin commented 10 years ago

I think you raise an valid point. There could be a way to factor out a core functionality that was more easily reusable for extension to other applications, e.g. a svg editor.

At the moment, the goal is to focus on a full-stack solution: figuring out nitty-gritty of hooking into editor events, dealing with constraints of the editors platforms, finding out how to deploy those extensions in the appropriate channels, and of course providing the bridge to git repositories.

Another possibility is to find a way to hook into os-level file system events.

This issue is definitely something that I will keep in mind, but waiting to after seeing what features devs want, and having done a few more editor extensions.

darrencauthon commented 10 years ago

I might rip you off in the meantime with a command-line runner... again, I really like this autogit idea. :tongue: