{"id":1218,"date":"2012-10-02T14:29:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T04:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2014-06-10T21:59:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:59:48","slug":"using-versioninsight-with-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Using VersionInsight with github"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a title=\"Migrating SVN to Git with history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=1043\">moving my sample code from google code to github<\/a>, I&#8217;ve had a few people complain that now they can&#8217;t open the source from within the IDE using <a title=\"VersionInsight in RAD Studio XE \u2013 Part 4 : Blame\/Annotations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=709\">VersionInsight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not quite correct. <!--more-->If all you want to do is checkout the source locally and start exploring it, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-subversion\" target=\"_blank\">github also supports Subversion clients<\/a>. Simply grab the HTTP URL from the github repository page and use that as your URL in the File | Open from Version Control dialog:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1219\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/versioninsightgit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1219\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1219\" title=\"versioninsightgit\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/versioninsightgit.jpg\" width=\"577\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/versioninsightgit.jpg 577w, http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/versioninsightgit-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/versioninsightgit-297x167.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The File | Open from Version Control&#8230; dialog in Delphi and C++Builder with a github HTTP URL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can also browse the repository and look at file history and file diffs using the VersionInsight IDE tools.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t gone too far with this, so not sure exactly how compatible the github SVN support is, but so far the read-only scenarios I&#8217;ve tried all seem to work.<\/p>\n<p>I should also put in a plug for Uwe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitcommander.de\/blog\/index.php\/category\/delphisvn\/\" target=\"_blank\">VersionInsight Plus<\/a>, which is rolling first class git support into VersionInsight (along with a lot of other cool stuff). If you&#8217;re looking at git for anything beyond simply browsing other people&#8217;s sample code, I&#8217;d strongly recommend you explore this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since moving my sample code from google code to github, I&#8217;ve had a few people complain that now they can&#8217;t open the source from within the IDE using VersionInsight. 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