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hi all, I've put together a set of SLKBUILDs that you can use to install RabbitVCS, a set of graphical tools written to provide straight-forward access to your version control systems. The code, written in python, is broken down into a core package as well as several front-end packages, one for Thunar and one for the command line. The thunar extension is similar to the extension that has been written for the Nautilus File Manager and similar to TortoiseSVN on Windows. Git support is expected for the next major release.

See this blog post for a video of rabbitvcs-thunar in action.

rabbitvcs-core SLKBUILD
http://www.rabbitvcs.org

Requires:
pygtk (in repo)
pygobject (in repo)
subversion (in repo)
pysvn
python-configobj

rabbitvcs-thunar SLKBUILD

Requires:
thunar (in repo)
thunarx-python

rabbitvcs-cli SLKBUILD

pysvn SLKBUILD
http://pysvn.tigris.org/

python-configobj SLKBUILD
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html

thunarx-python SLKBUILD
http://github.com/adamplumb/thunarx-python

If there is any interest in having these packaged, I can do that.

Thanks for your contribution.

For your information: There is already thunar-vcs-plugin in the repository, which integrates into thunar with a context menu to file and can do both svn and git.

What are the differences to RabbitSVN? Beside the facts that it is written in python and therefore has some more dependencies ... I think a good tool for Nautilus users, anyway.

damNageHack wrote:Thanks for your contribution.

For your information: There is already thunar-vcs-plugin in the repository, which integrates into thunar with a context menu to file and can do both svn and git.

What are the differences to RabbitSVN? Beside the facts that it is written in python and therefore has some more dependencies ... I think a good tool for Nautilus users, anyway.

I know about thunar-vcs-plugin, and it is good software. But that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be the only option. In my opinion, there is plenty of room for both.

Regarding the differences, thunar-vcs-plugin supports svn and git, whereas RabbitVCS currently only supports svn (with plans in the future for git and others). In that area, thunar-vcs-plugin is clearly better than RabbitVCS. However, RabbitVCS has a better user interface (my opinion) and more functionality (such as a repository browser, merge tool, and advanced diff/compare functionality). Also, RabbitVCS provides front-ends to several file managers and programs, such as Nautilus, Thunar, and Gedit (the text editor), with Dolphin/Konqueror on the way. So this allows you to have a consistent way of interacting with RabbitVCS from different front-ends. thunar-vcs-plugin is limited to being a thunar plugin only.

A new version of rabbitvcs has come out, v0.13.1, and the packaging is a bit simpler now. You just need the one rabbitvcs package now.

http://www.cobradragon.com/~adam/salix/rabbitvcs.tar.gz

http://www.cobradragon.com/~adam/salix/pysvn.tar.gz, http://www.cobradragon.com/~adam/salix/ ... obj.tar.gz, and http://www.cobradragon.com/~adam/salix/ ... hon.tar.gz are still required dependencies.