VCS access from Jetbrains Client

[m.sciachero (Mirko Sciachero)]

Hi all,

has anyone information on how I can access VCS information from the Intellij Client?

I check the plugins and there is no VCS plugin installed but the UI can show information about branches (local on host and remotes). So are available any API for accessing information (in particular git one?).

Mainly I just need these information:

1. The current branch
2. The remote branch
3. The head log
4. The repository URL

Thanks a lot everyone

[yuriy.artamonov]

It is expected that VCS plugin APIs are not present in JetBrains Client as in remote development an IDE is a distributed system.

Please start with this template:

GitHub - JetBrains/intellij-platform-modular-plugin-template: An example of a...

and checkout response from our team:

Questions on V2 plugin descriptor

Hi Joachim! All the features mentioned in this doc about v2 (modular) plugins except required-if-available should work in 2025.2. required-if-available attribute is supported starting with 2025.3. Actually, it wasn’t necessary to use package attribute even in 2025.2. If you don’t specify it and register content modules in plugin.xml via content tag, they should work. It isn’t necessary to keep modules in separate packages even in 2025.2. If you don’t specify package attribute, the IDE will ass…

Also this video should clarify things

Making an IntelliJ Plugin Remote Development-friendly

[m.sciachero (Mirko Sciachero)]

Thanks a lot @yuriy.artamonov I followed already that question, I recognized was closely related.
So remote development changed a lot starting from 2025.2 and I should push my current customer to keep it as update as possible (we are actually in 2025.1).