https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions.pluginmanager

Package manager for downloading and installing Git Extensions plugins.
https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions.pluginmanager

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Package manager for downloading and installing Git Extensions plugins.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions.pluginmanager
• Owner: gitextensions
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-05-26T02:14:22.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-08-27T07:24:07.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-08-28T23:33:37.549Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: gitextensions, gitextensions-plugin
• Language: C#
• Homepage:
• Size: 354 KB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# GitExtensions.PluginManager

NuGet based plugin manager for Git Extensions

![Preview](/assets/screenshot-search.png)

Repository with some example plugins - https://www.myget.org/F/neptuo-gitextensions/api/v2.


Nightly builds of PluginManager available at Appveyor - https://ci.appveyor.com/nuget/gitextensions-pluginmanager.

### Appveyor

[![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/cg2y7qojbugw7usg?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/gitextensions/gitextensions-pluginmanager)

### Browsing for packages

PluginManager integrated into Git Extensions filters packages with dependency on `GitExtensions.Extensibility`. This package is right now a kind of meta package and it is used to mark nuget packages intended as Git Extensions plugins.

### Command line arguments

PluginManager is designed to be a reusable tool to manage plugins distributed as nuget packages. This repository contains an integration package for Git Extensins.

As a standalone application, PluginManager supports these command line arguments:

- `--path` (required) - A root path to a directory where to install packages.

- `--selfpackageid` (optional) - A package id to indicate which package should be treated as a package for self update. 

- `--dependencies` (optional) - A comma separated list of package ids and versions that are required in package to be compatible (Eg. `GitExtensions.Extensibility-v3.0,TestA,TestB-v1`).

- `--monikers` (optional) - A comma separated list of .NET framework monikers to filter package content during extraction (Eg. `net461,netstandard2.0`).

- `--processnamestokillbeforechange` - A comma separated list of process names to be killed before any changes being processed (it is used to kill all instances on Git Extensions before installing/uninstalling dlls, that might be locked).

### Binding between GitExtensions.PluginManager and GitExtensions.Extensibility

The plugin defines a required dependency on `GitExtensions.Extensibility` (see [Plugin.cs#L55](https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions.pluginmanager/blob/master/src/GitExtensions.PluginManager/Plugin.cs#L55)) which filters out packages that are not meant as plugins for Git Extensions. The idea is that by selecting minimal version, we limit plugins targeting a specific Git Extensions version. Each version of Git Extensions that is not compatible with the previous one in terms of plugins, should increment a Major version (before we stabilize GitExtensions.Extensibility, we are incrementing Minor version).

### Icons

Some icons by Yusuke [Kamiyamane](http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com).


Some other by [Material Design](https://material.io/tools/icons).