Thanks to all who replied.
I have now installed the plugin that John & Thomas referred me to and
it shows my current git branch in the status bar, fabulous!
It was a little hard to install since it didn't show up in the plugin
dialog, ie it's no longer in any of the NB "portal" areas.
What I had to do (thanks John for the private email) was download the
code (I did it as a zip and then unpacked it) and then look at the
"Downloaded" tab of the plugin dialog and click "Add" which allowed me
to pick the packaged 1.0.2 version from the downloaded files.
This wasn't quite the end of the story since my setup then complained
about "pack200" ("pack"? Not sure, but definitely "200"). Fortunately
it then presented me with the jdk directory which contained a file
named that and once that was selected the installation proceeded
smoothly. Of course (!) I had to restart NB to activate the plugin,
even though NB didn't mention this as a requirement.
It's great that this still works, but it is nine years old (!!), which
is a bit worrying. The original developer seems to have disappeared,
will no-one else clone this and get it into the Apache portals (I don't
know java very well and have too many other projects on the go 8-( )?
Mark
On Sat, 2023-03-25 at 20:14 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> You need to download the nbm from the Github repository and install
> it manually
>
> https://github.com/Chris2011/nb-git-branch-in-statusbar/releases
>
> Admin @ Goodun schrieb am 25.03.2023 um 19:42:
> > Many thanks for that. Thomas and John' suggestion of
> > nb-git-branch-in-statusbar looks like it's even better than I was
> > asking for.
> >
> > However, where/how can I load it? It's not in the list of plugins
> > NB
> > shows me, even if I include the 8.2 portal (!), and the link on
> > Chris'
> > github page doesn't work.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Sat, 2023-03-25 at 18:42 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> > > Admin @ Goodun schrieb am 25.03.2023 um 18:13:
> > > > Is there a way of getting NetBeans to (always) display the git
> > > > branch I
> > > > currently am switched to?
> > >
> > > I am using this plugin
> > >
> > > https://github.com/Chris2011/nb-git-branch-in-statusbar
> > >
> > > it's a bit old, but still works with NetBeans 17
>
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