Opening the Fisheye page for your current file from your IDE

Our revision control system is SVN, with a Fisheye server providing easy browsing of the repository. I use Fisheye very much and was tired of having to dig through the deep hierarchies of our project to display the information about a file. I therefore wrote a very little script that I can launch from Visual Studio to open the Fisheye page for the current file, with the correct branch/trunk information.

This script assumes that the directory structure on the disk mimicks the directory structure on the SVN repository, with a prefix (here: f:\work): f:\work\theProject\branches\aBranch\foo.txt corresponds to file foo.txt in the root directory of project theProject on branch aBranch. This will open page https://your-fisheye-server/browse/theProject/branches/aBranch/foo.txt. Of course, you will probably want to edit the location of the server...

rem
rem Launch a browser directed to the Fisheye page for
rem a particular file.
rem
rem mailto:xavier.nodet@gmail.com
rem

@echo off

rem Assumption: first argument is a absolute path to the file
rem on the disk for which we would like to display the
rem corresponding Fisheye page.
set FILE=%1

rem Remove the "f:\work" prefix from the file path
set FILE=%FILE:f:\work=%
rem @echo %FILE%

rem Replace all the backslashes with forward slashes
set FILE=%FILE:\=/%
rem @echo %FILE%

start "c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 4\firefox.exe" https://your-fisheye-server/browse%FILE%

You will have to launch this script from your IDE with as single argument the full path to the file you want to see in Fisheye. Here is how to do this from Visual Studio. Open the 'Tools' -> 'External tools...' menu, click the 'Add' button, and fill the information needed, using $(ItemPath) for the argument:

You now have a 'Current file on Fisheye' entry on your Tools menu, that you simply have to choose to launch Firefox...

I hope you'll find this useful...