Is there a notepad++ with github plugin? [closed]

Question

I see that there is a subversion plugin for npp, but I didn't see anything similar for github. I want to be able to type the commit messages straight in notepad++ editor rather than git command line.

Is there one?

Answer 1

This is a really old question, but I just bumped into it today and thought I'd share my strategy (second path asked for by the OP), as I can't seem to be able to find a convenient plugin for making Notepad++ and GitHub work together.

You can use GitHub Desktop App to set you repository locally, make commits, pulls, pushes, etc. Just login with your account, and then create a local repository for your project. As you can see in the referenced page, an added benefit to this approach is that the application provides a rich set of features, difficult to match by a plugin.

After creating the repository, just open the files you wish to edit with Notepad++. Make some changes, save and use the GitHub Desktop Application to do all GitHub related stuff.

By the way, if you have two monitors, or a big one, you can just have the two applications open side by side, which emulates similar setups you can find in advanced IDEs (Eclipse, for example). I find this to be even more convenient and fluid than having to open a separate plugin dialogue for doing my Git related stuff. The GitHub Desktop application will even refresh automatically, without any interaction being required from you, after you make any editions to the files (using Notepadd++) or any changes in the file structure (add, rename, move, delete files).

Answer 2

There is a Git plugin for Notepad++, but it seems designed to work in conjunction with TortoiseGit: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1358320/all

Answer 3

Git is generally designed to be fairly independent of editor.

If you're working on Windows, have you considered msysgit?

There's also a TortoiseGit, if you're familiar with TortoiseSVN.