Enhancement to the VCS OpenAPI for Aurora

Jacques, thanks for the list.
I see it's pretty old but - unfortunately - still valid.
Most of your concerns are the exact same reasons I decided
not to base my Perforce plugin on VCS API.

Please make sure you expose as well your progress API
http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=4325

This is such an important part of a VCS that deals with potentially long
operations (at least when dealing with ClearCase ;)

"Jacques Morel" <jacmorel@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:13363345.1049214119617.JavaMail.jrun@is.intellij.net...

Since it was brought up in another thread I thought I would open a

specific thread to talk about what JetBrains is planning on doing to the VCS
API and what their users think they should do.
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Let me say that the VCS OpenAPI is a great way to handle VCS integration.

However it has limitations and some other part of the IDEA need to be opened
up to create a fuller integration. The benchmark I believe in that respect
is Eclipse and if JetBrains strategy is to leave the work of integrating
IDEA with VCSes to third-party you REALLY need to create a rich OpemAPI.
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Here are some SCRs that were already submitted

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http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=4327: *decorate

any

views of a file (tab title, tree nodes,...)*
http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=2751: *add VCS

plugin

specific statuses and modify them*
http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=4256: *OpenAPI:

Add

access to the LVCS from a plugin*
http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=4668: *Get Diffs

list

from CheckinProjectPanel*

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To be opened: colorized the directories the same way as file when the VCS
plugin supports renames/moves

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Jacques

Please, consider also
http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=8066
(VCS Support for multiple changelists)

I forgot also these
Cancel in checkin project doesn't work: http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=9488
IDEA modified files that are updated outside are not included in Checkin: http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=6061
Add the ability to programmatically do the same as the LVCS Add label... action: http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=5193
Add the ability to attach custom plugin attributes to LVCS file entries: http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=4329
External changes should be treated as changes for Check In: http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=4185
Ability to be called back when rollback on a file is invoked: http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=4100

A bug of the tracker includes the ':' at the end of the hyperlink. Just open them up manually

http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jsp?forum=13&thread=28442&tstart=0&trange=100 (fix performance of the Check In Project diff dual tree view)

Support for offline and online mode: http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=12862

Decouple "excludes" from Check In Project: http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=2752

_Enhancements: _
*Open API VCS option for simplified model needed *http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=4764
*VCS OpenAPI: Support for both online and offline mode * http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=12862
*Ability to exclude certain files/directory/patterns from VCS *http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=12841

Bug:
In Check In Project dialog, right click action on deleted file do not specify a file http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=11771