Open in SourceTree from IntelliJ IDEA

Michael Rabbitt — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:11:00 GMT

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:

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Open in SourceTree from IntelliJ IDEA