Feature request: Git pull and push buttons on the main kicad window

It might make sense only of you use Git as sort of 'cloud storage' for your project. You can't do any meaningful merges/rebases/pull requests/diffs on any SCH/PCB file, such thing would require writing a PCB-specific VCS which is a large project in itself...

This is really not as simple as it sounds. I think youbare better off writing your own action plugin, you can add icons to the toolbar with this.

 I am afraid implementing this directly in kicad can get messy.

I seem to remember a request for VCS integration already being requested so this is probably a duplicate. @Nick's suggestion of an action plugin is interesting. This would allow users to run any external command from KiCad. I'm not sure if that is something users would be interested in because it means that they are responsible for configuring the actions they care about. Given the effort to configure such actions, it probably would just be easier to run them from a shell.

@Tomasz I do use it as cloud storage effectively, though the version control and tagging come in very handy as well. Items such as merges/rebases/ pull requests are probably beyond anything that I would like to do with Git and Kicad, however there is already a visual diff program for schematics.

There is alot of information regarding Git and Kicad (including the visual diff tool) here: https://jnavila.github.io/plotkicadsch/ Additionally I maybe wrong, however I believe Github provide a kicad .gitignore by default as well now.

@Nick, I've not come across action plugins? They sound of interest though, especially if you can add icons to the main kicad project screen toolbar. Do you have a link to an example by any chance?

@Wayne, my apologies if it is a duplicate, I must admit I searched for Git and not wider terms such as VCS.

For examlpe ibom https://github.com/openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom

We know there are tricks to make the vcs better for git, hence this is certainly something that is better of as an externsl tool, that can be hooked into pcbnew with the action plugin if you really wish.

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/3466