Git integration

[kjameslubin]

Not sure if this is planned and obvious, (or possibly against the philosophy of haskell-ide-engine), but it is probably a good idea to be able to import a project from git with a single command. I have found it somewhat annoying to import projects into IDEs like Eclipse, IntelliJ, and we should do a better job at integrating. I like the way that stack handles its git support.

[cocreature]

At least in the current state hie doesn’t do project management but we expect an existing cabal or stack project. Until that changes I am not really sure what git integration would mean.

[kjameslubin]

Got it, thanks @cocreature. Just wanted to make sure you could "just clone"

[bergey]

It seems like everyone expects hie to work with either stack or cabal. I hope at some point it will get functions to figure out the root directory of a project (eg, given a .hs filepath) and decide what build tool to use. Otherwise every IDE has to write these functions, and uses different heuristics. So maybe a little bit of project management?

[mgsloan]

@bergey This is already done by ghc-mod (and hie uses it for initializing ghc sessions). It finds the root directory and decides to use stack or cabal.