Re: Need help for migration from CVS to git in one go (ie, FORGETTING CVS history)

From: Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net>
Date: Nov 5, 2008, 23:34 UTC
Message-ID: <200811060034.48053.fg@one2team.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081105232348.GP15463@spearce.org>

Le Thursday 06 November 2008 00:23:48 Shawn O. Pearce, vous avez écrit :

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> Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net> wrote:
> > Finally, about the Eclipse plugin:
> > * the README says that it has no push capacity, the popup menu says
> > otherwise (last checked last Saturday)... What should I believe?
>
> The README is out of date.  Push is implemented, works, and folks
> actually use it.  That was a nice success from our GSoC program
> this year.
>

Good to hear :p Any chance that the README gets updated? ;)

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> > * if the plugin can push, can you configure from within the plugin what
> > branches can be pushed where, or should you edit .git/config by hand?
>
> I don't think you can edit saved configurations in the plugin UI.
> The APIs are there underneath to do the reading/writing and most
> of the UI to show a configuration is present, I just don't think
> anyone has wired the two together for saved configurations inside
> of .git/config.  So yea, edit by hand.
>

Not a big deal, I guess. This can be handled... (BTW, what about "git clone"? Still not there, although _this_ can be dealt with also)

> > * "git stash": is it supported?
>
> Not in Eclipse, no.
>

What do you mean by this?

> > * can you "copy" a commit, or even a set of commits, and "cherry-pick"
> > them into another branch? Or even rebase a branch onto antoher?
>
> Not in Eclipse, no.

Same question... What exactly is the problem with Eclipse wrt this kind of operation?

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fge