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Introduction

The Thunar VCS Plugin adds Subversion and GIT actions to the context menu of thunar. This gives a SVN integration and GIT integration to Thunar.

This project was formerly known as Thunar SVN Plugin.

The current features are:

  • Most of the svn action: add, blame, checkout, cleanup, commit, copy, delete, export, import, lock, log, move, properties, relocate, resolved, revert, status, switch, unlock, update.
  • Subversion info in file properties dialog.
  • Basic git actions: add, blame, branch, clean, clone, log, move, reset, stash, status.

Usage

In the Thunar file/folder view right click on a file ore folder and the context menu pops up showing the SVN and GIT sub menu. Choose the appropriate action.

Screenshots

These screen shots are of the Thunar git Plugin.

Git context sub menu show for a version controlled file
Git context sub menu show for a version controlled file

Git log window for a selected file
Git log window for a selected file

The notification dialog is shown during and after several Git actions.

These screen shots are of the Thunar SVN Plugin.

SVN context sub menu show for a version controlled file
SVN context sub menu show for a version controlled file

The SVN context sub menu show for a version controlled file.

SVN log window for a selected file
SVN log window for a selected file

The notification dialog is shown during and after many SVN actions, like update.

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Dependencies

  • Thunar
  • Thunarx 1.2.0 or higher
  • exo 0.6.0 or higher
  • libxfce4util 4.8.0 or higher
  • gtk 2.14.0 or higher
  • glib 2.18.0 or higher
  • gobject 2.18.0 or higher
  • libsvn 1.5 or higher (optional)
  • libapr 0.9.7 or higher (optional)
  • git application (optional)

Building and Installing

For building the Thunar VCS Plugin depends on xfce4-dev-tools version 4.8.0 or higher. For Thunar to be able to find the Thunar VCS Plugin both have to be install with the same prefix. The configure script will automatically try find the prefix of Thunar. To ensure this run the following command to build from tarball: 

./configure

For source build from the git repository run the following: 

./autogen.sh

Afterwards one of these commands the source is ready to be build and installed. For install root access might be necessary. 

make && make install

Latest Release

  • thunar-vcs-plugin 0.4.0 released (2025/05/20 16:36)
    thunar-vcs-plugin 0.4.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/thunar-plugins/thunar-vcs-plugin/0.4/thunar-vcs-plugin-0.4.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/thunar-plugins/thunar-vcs-plugin/0.4/thunar-vcs-plugin-0.4.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/thunar-plugins/thunar-vcs-plugin/0.4/thunar-vcs-plugin-0.4.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is thunar-vcs-plugin? ========================== The Thunar VCS Plugin adds Subversion and GIT actions to the context menu of Thunar. This gives a SVN integration and GIT integration to Thunar. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/thunar-vcs-plugin Release notes for 0.4.0 ======================= Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and autotools will be removed in a future release. - Update README after switchover to meson - Fix a ThunarxMenu leak in tvp_svn_action_create_menu_item - Fix a ThunarxMenu leak in tvp_git_action_create_menu_item - Fix string leaks in git-log parser - Fix warnings - Add support to Meson - Fix a -Wunused-macros warning with GCC - Replace deprecated exo with libxfce4ui 4.21.0 - Translation Updates: Albanian, Slovak

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Source Code Repository

https://gitlab.xfce.org/thunar-plugins/thunar-vcs-plugin

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