Installation & Usage

You can install this plugin, as any other published Godot Engine's plugin, in different ways:

1. Manual Installation

The manual installation can be done as any other repository's manual installation, both through terminal, GitHub Desktop or physical file managing.

Here you can find the official documentation for the manual installation of a repository.
Here's what you specifically need to do to specifically install this plugin for Godot Engine:

• Using terminal:

  • current working directory: C:/<user>/<your godot engine project's folder> (for example, my plugin is a Godot Engine's project which folder is in C:\Users\Nicolò\Documents\GodotProjects\GithubIntegration)
  • repository link: https://github.com/fenix-hub/godot-engine.github-integration.git

• **Downloading ZIP file: **

  • extract the content of the folder godot-engine.github-integration-<version> to your project folder. The content should be addons (folder) , VERSION.md , README.md , .gitignore. You can just move the addons folder in your project folder. If you already have an addons folder inside your project folder, just add the addons/github-integration zipped folder to your addons folder. From the editor you project folder should look like res://addons/github-integration/...

2. Automatic Installation

Godot Engine supports a in-editor and wab-based Asset Library.
I'll talk about the in-editor installation since the browser installation is very similar to the GitHub one.

Go to the Asset library tab inside Godot Engine editor, and look for GitHub Integration.
Click on the plugin, then download. Godot Engine will download the last published version of the plugin.

QUICK NOTE: currently the Asset Library is manually managed, so sometimes plugins won't show the last updated file, but only the manually accepted ones. To check if you are installing the last version of a plugin, always check the version shown in Godot Engine editor / Asset Library, and the last version of the plugin inside the GitHub original repository.
Once the plugin is downloaded, you can install it inside your project. It is advised to NOT deselect any file except README.md - TODO.md - VERSION.md files.
If an addons/github-integration folder is successfully added to your project, you are good to go.

But how do I use it?

Each plugin you install must be activated to work.
In Godot Engine, go to Project > Project Settings > Plugins > GitHub Integration and under status select active.
Now you new button will appear in the Toolbar, the "GitHub" button.

Everything is now ready, let's start using this plugin!