Git with Fire

Elements Fire
1

I miss a few things I miss with Fire IDE.

  • Having to manually create gitignore file
  • Not seeing files greyed out when ignored by git, like in VSCode

Also, should all git handling be done in an external terminal?

2

Right now Fire purposely has no version control integration, because that’s just one of the many things that bloat most modern IDERs and cause them to be so slow — and personally i believe version control is far better handled by a dedicated tool (i personally use and love Gitbox, even though that’s deprecated/abandonware, at this stage; other good ones for Mac are Tower and GitUp).

3

I dont know about the ones mentioned but I use github desktop. There is also a visual studio gitignore template that seems to work well with Fire.

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4

i’ll think about non-intrusive ways that won’t affect launch and overall performance to add git support, maybe. No promises.

5

Maybe placing a gitignore in file root (maybe optionally) would be enough?

Also, handling merge conflicts - would it be done externally with these git tools then? I don’t prefer doing it in terminal

6

So I forgot it, but Github Desktop prompts opening and resolving conflicts in VSCode

Screenshot 2022-06-24 at 17.19.51

7

Okay?