Open in SourceTree from IntelliJ IDEA

Posted: 2012-07-05 12:11

I'm quite fond of SourceTree for managing Git repositories (it does Mercurial as well). SourceTree comes with an stree command to open repositories from the command line. I wanted to set up an external tool in IntelliJ IDEA to the repo containing the current source file, stree only works if you call it without any arguments with a current working directory of the root level of a repo, or if you pass the path to the root level of a repo as an argument. This is fine if you have only a single Git source root in your IntelliJ project: You can just use call stree directly with the $ProjectFileDir$ macro as a parameter. But if you have multiple modules in your project with different Git source roots, it gets more difficult. I tried using the $ModuleFileDir$ macro, but this seems to the directory where the .iml file for the module is stored, which is not the source root of the module.

So, I ended up writing a small wrapper for stree which can take the path to any file or directory within a Git or Mercurial repo as an argument and invokes stree with the path to the root of the repo:

#!/bin/bash -e getRepoRoot() { local target=$1 if [ -d "${target}" ] ; then cd "${target}" elif [ -f "${target}" ] ; then cd "$(dirname ${target})" fi echo $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || hg root 2>/dev/null) } STREE_EXE='stree' if ! type "${STREE_EXE}" ; then if [ -x '/Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/stree' ] ; then STREE_EXE='/Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/stree' fi fi repo_root_path=$(getRepoRoot "${1:-${PWD}}") "$STREE_EXE" "${repo_root_path}"