[0.23] GitCraft v0.9b2 -- .craft revision management using Git

[BrianMcNett]

I second what blizzy78 wrote. You could use any of the many Git tools with the GitCraft repository. For instance, you could use the console git to push the repository. It is just a git repository in the saves/<saved game name> directory, and it will work with any tool that works with git repositories. I am not planning to add the pushing functionality into the plugin, though. The plugin is supposed to make git useful during the normal game. I don't think that the use-case for pushing those repositories justifies supporting it in the plugin right now. I believe that typically pushing is not done nearly as often as craft revisions.

I'm setting up an account on github for other reasons, but could easily test this out both from the command line and with the GitHub GUI tool on the Mac. I'd love to be able to create and iterate my craft and share the resulting iterations. Thanks again if I haven't already, for creating this.

[mhoram]

Very cool tool. I already thougt about revisioning my rockets with git, but having git within KSP is simply grandious. A non-intruding must-have Addon!

By the way, git supports post-commit hooks, where one can simply script that it should be automatically pushed.

Edit: May I ask you to test your mod in combination with Kerbal Engneer Redux. Whenever I 0.9b2-Git-Load a rocket that has a part of KER on it, the editor freezes after the rocket appears in the VAB.

Edited January 23, 2014 by mhoram

[swamp_ig]

Maybe a simple way of adding a comment to the commit would just be to pull the description field from the craft, or some subsection of it.

You could put in at the end of the description, and everything after that becomes the commit comment and also removed from the craft description. EG:

Revision:

Added the rocket engines to the cockpit. Is this a good idea?

[exm]

swamp_lg -- yes, it is a good idea. I am thinking about how to handle the commit comment and other related data, like deltaV and so on. There will be some support for commit messages and craft annotations in the next version.

[exm]

Edit: May I ask you to test your mod in combination with Kerbal Engneer Redux. Whenever I 0.9b2-Git-Load a rocket that has a part of KER on it, the editor freezes after the rocket appears in the VAB.

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the issue you are describing -- a small ship with the "ER-7500" unit on it appears to work with Git. Is there any possibility that you can share your .craft file that triggers freezing?

[blizzy78]

Edit: May I ask you to test your mod in combination with Kerbal Engneer Redux. Whenever I 0.9b2-Git-Load a rocket that has a part of KER on it, the editor freezes after the rocket appears in the VAB.

When the editor freezes, press Alt+F12 and look for input locks. Please list them here.

[mhoram]

Thanks for the hint about input locks.

I found out how to reproduce this issue with any ship.

Move the git-window so that the load-button is within the bounds of the KER window.

Click on the load button while the mouse pointer is also over the KER window.

It seems like this is more of a bug in KER that it does not reset it's input lock when a new ship is loaded.

Workaround: Before clicking on the git-load button make sure that the mouse pointer is not over the KER window.

[BrutalRIP]

still work in .23.5?

edit:yeah it works

Edited May 1, 2014 by BrutalRIP

[Tivec]

I know this is a total necro of this thread, but I was just curious if there's anyone who might have the skill/knowledge to recompile it for .24.2, and see if it still works out?

[BrutalRIP]

theres always this

[Tivec]

theres always this

Yeah, I've been using that, but it does not seem to detect changes to my saves until I go to flight - I like the way GitCraft works on every save.

[John FX]

Looks like a dead mod...