Any news on an Eclipse plugin?

I'm considering starting an Eclipse plugin for GIT. So I did some digging to see if any existing projects have anything I can contribute to (rather than starting from scratch) but I only turned up a thread from May 2005 started by Jon Seymour:

  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0505/3357.html

anyone know anything newer? If there's nothing existing worth starting with other than the CVS or SVN plugins (as mentioned in this thread) I'll probably start putting together a prototype and start making it available early next week.

I'm going to carefully read the thread that I linked to above before writing anything, so there's no need to start getting into the core and not so core discussion again. I'll read it over for myself. :-)

The subversion plugin (subclipse.tigris.org) might be a good starting point since it delegates a lot of it's low-level work through an interface called svnClientAdapter. Re-implementing that to talk to git should get you something useful in a reasonable time-frame.

Note that an eclipse team plugin is a pretty complicated beast.

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Hi

Have you yet made any kind of planning of the features that would be available or put up the repository? I use novadays Eclipse basically for all of my editing and something like CVS/Subclipse plug-ins for git would be cool. (cdt cross-indexing is still a little bit slow with the amount of files in kernel so with kernel I have turned that off)

Noel Grandin wrote:

Yes, but very powerfull for the people like me who have who just have never bothered to learn VI/Emacs/sed properly and feel with them like having 5 thumps, code finders, search tools, refactoring tools, etc. available in Eclipse are very cool.

So if the repository for git plug-ins goes up somewhere I could try to help a little bit.

Mika

lamikr <lamikr@cc.jyu.fi> wrote:

Right now I'm just trying to get the basic Eclipse team plugin plumbing into place. For my first `release' however I am planning on implementing the following:

1) read the HEAD tree-ish into an in-memory index within Eclipse from
   loose objects only
2) add files/subtrees to that tree
3) delete files/subtrees from that tree
4) commit the modified tree as a single parent commit
5) update HEAD with the new commit

But that's actually a lot of work.  :-)

There's a lot of really critical stuff not in that list:

6) reading objects from packs
7) pulling or pushing from a remote
8) merges and multi-parent commits
9) synchronization of the workspace with the native git 'index' file
... plus lots of other useful things ...

I'm working on that first list (1-5) this week and will post
a complete repository as soon as I have that working such that
another Eclipse developer might be able to do something with it.
Then I'll likely start in on 6 and 7 and be forced to deal with
8 when 7 is doing pulls in an interesting way.  That's certainly
weeks away from being remotely useful.
 

The more the merrier. As has been pointed out an Eclipse team plugin is not a trivial chunk of code.

As a side effect of this effort I'd also like to see a set of Ant tasks written. I'm building a non-Eclipse specific GIT API in pure Java to provide implementation to the Eclipse plugins. Some functions are likely going to just fork/exec the core GIT tools as I'm not planning on implementing pack deltification or rename tracking in Java.

Anyhoo - if you are still interested in this project look for an email from me later this week. I should have a repository available then.