[Dr. McKay]

I find that a separate repository per plugin is highly unnecessary as most plugins consist of just a single file.

Therefore I just start up my local server (updating it first if necessary) and launch Notepad++. I type out the header and myinfo struct manually because I figure that it'll just take longer to find and copy from an existing file (plus I'm lazy and don't feel like setting up a proper template of some sort).

Then I just start going, hitting F5 to compile directly to my test server (with auto-reloading) and alt-tab to TF2 to check it out.