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

From: Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net>
Date: Nov 6, 2008, 01:28 UTC
Message-ID: <200811060228.21124.fg@one2team.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081105234425.GA2932@spearce.org>

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> > > > * "git stash": is it supported?
> > >
> > > Not in Eclipse, no.
> >
> > What do you mean by this?
>
> I mean there's no implementation of git stash.  Eclipse doesn't
> support git stash, the notion of the stash, the branch the stash
> is on.  Its not in the Eclipse plugin.
>

While I'm a total newbie to Eclipse, and not that fluent with Java, this looks surprising. Is it really Eclipse that is at fault here? Eclipse saves its workspace (whatever it means to "save a workspace") when it exits, isn't there an interface that you can implement that does "partial" saves, hence git stashes?

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> > > > * 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?
>
> Its also not implemented in the eclipse UI.

Eclipse has the ability to apply patches AFAIK... Even though this may not be equivalent to a git cherry-pick, wouldn't there be a way to extract at least the diffs and commit messages and apply?

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fge