Plugin Support

[p1nga]

I propose the it should be possible for the root path for the SCM could be a folder containing a .uplugin file as opposed to a .uproject file. This would open up a simpler way for people to manage working in multiple mods in a single project / SDK.

The user would be able to switch which plugin folder is currently integrated into the editor by changing some settings in the Source Control configuration box, and maybe a drop down to select a plugin folder that is connected to some SCM

[SRombauts]

Thanks for reporting this.

For future reference, bellow is the answer I gave on the UE forums :
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?108688-Plastic-SCM-Source-Control-Provider

I am not entirely sure on how to do that:

1. it would probably not be possible to add the auto-detection. I mean, I could try to check for a workspace in each plugin of the project (in GamePluginsDir()) but this could lead to multiple workspaces found, and it would not be what everyone whants
2. would you accept a simple EditBox in the Connect to Source Control screen where you could change manually the path to the root of the project, to switch to a subdir?

[p1nga]

I made a small change just for testing purpose, what i did was i hard coded the path to our plugin (on my local system) into the settings, and rebuilt from source, everything works just fine, i was going to look at making a check box, and drop down, but i'm not much of a c++ person.

[SRombauts]

Nice.
I believe I will work on it today or tomorrow, at least for à first simple version.

[p1nga]

I modified the settings dialog to take a text input for the path to the workspace folder.
might be better if there is a dropdown with options to select a choice from automatic or plugin folder?
I also noticed that what ever i did broke the status icons, and that the path was cleared when you restart the editor. I'm no c++ programmer, so i was just messing about, but i was able to check out / in / sync as normal.

[SRombauts]

Sorry, I had not enough energy in spare to tackle seriously this last week!
What you did is great, but it's only half of the work: there are multiple parts in code that assume and rely on the root of the workspace being the root of the project.
I still hope to work on this "quite soon", stay tuned!

[SRombauts]

Hi @p1nga,

I have finally spend my evening on your feature request, I pushed 7ef75b2 on master!
It is not perfect but it seems working as intended, can you check it and let me know?

Cheers!