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Re: Eclipse support status (was: Re: [EGIT 00/10] This weeks Eclipse patches)

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 8, 2007, 02:07 UTC
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Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net> wrote:
> I wanted to ask about current status of Git-Eclipse support. Is this 
> plugin able to actually do anything or not? What works and what does not? 
> Can it be used by developers using Git? Or maybe git-svn or git-cvsserver 
> are better?

There's no support for committing through Eclipse yet, let alone doing things like creating new branches or switching branches.

But Robin has done a lot of work on the status and history viewing tools, to the point that you can use the QuickDiff feature in Eclipse to see which parts of a file you have recently modified (but not committed), which files/directories are modified in the Navigator, and view the "git shortlog" for the currently selected file/directory.

> If it it not usable at the moment do you have any idea when it may be 
> usable? I know several developers really waiting for such support even 
> early or beta quality.

I would say its *very* early alpha. It could cause your Eclipse workbench to run out of memory, and crash, especially on large projects. It also doesn't have that many features yet. ;-)

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 13 of 14 in “[EGIT 00/10] This weeks Eclipse patches”
  1. Robin RosenbergMay 7, 2007
  2. 01/10 Fixes due to changes in the Eclipse Team APIRobin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  3. 02/10 Recursion and update of all elements regardless of need.Robin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  4. 03/10 Update compare window immediatelyRobin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  5. 04/10 Bug: Do not crash when showing diff for first version of a fileRobin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  6. 05/10 Speed up ObjectId a little.Robin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  7. 06/10 Create a generic history walkerRobin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  8. 07/10 Cache pack index fullyRobin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  9. 08/10 Use ObjectId[] instead of List for parentsRobin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  10. 09/10 Run history refresh in backgroundRobin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  11. 10/10 Enable a tooltip in the history viewRobin Rosenberg, May 7, 2007
  12. Eclipse support status (was: Re: [EGIT 00/10] This weeks Eclipse patches)Grzegorz Kulewski, May 7, 2007
  13. Shawn O. PearceMay 8, 2007
  14. Shawn O. PearceMay 8, 2007

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