Here are some screenshots of new redesigned steps in EGit synchronization wizard. The main idea is to make most common synchronization usage as short as it is possible. So I come with idea of ‘predefined synchronization configurations’. In first step of sync-wizard you can select from three options:
- Working Tree
- Remote Tracking
- Custom
After selecting first option you only uncommitted local changes (those that are stager/in index and those that aren’t). This should help you when you want to review yours changes just before commit or stage some changes.
Second option ‘Remote Tracking’ is only available when current branch tracks one of yours remote branches (if it doesn’t this option is disabled). This option will show you all locally made changes (same as in ‘Working Tree’) but also changes made in commits that occurs in local and remote branch after you started the local one.
Selecting one of those two actions (and selecting the checkbox next to repository name) will enable the ‘Finish’ button and you are done with launching synchronization.
In case when at least in one repository the ‘Custom’ option is selected, the ‘Finish’ button will be disabled, but ‘Next >’ should be enabled. In this situation you must go to the next page to setup yours custom synchronization.
On ‘custom synchronization step’ you will only see repositories that was chosen to have a custom synchronization. Here you can select source and destination branch and also include or exclude local changes from being shown in synchronization results.
Those changes are currently pending for a review in ours gerrit, but I think that they will be merged into master branch (not they won’t be included in 0.12 release).
What do you think about such approach for git synchronization? Maybe you see some other ‘predefined’ day-to-day synchronization configuration, if yes please let me know!
Almost 24 hours ago Google announces list of accepted projects in this year edition of Google Summer of Code program. In current edition Eclipse Foundation got 17 slots (as you may know from Wayne post). One of this slots was allocated for me (as a student) and Matthias Sohn, the project that we’ll be working is a continuation of my last year work for EGit project. The project name is “EGit Synchronize View support part 2″, if somebody is curious what this project is about you can check it on melange’s (I’ve made it public). In this proposal I want to address most important missing features in current implementation of EGit Synchronization support. If you think that something there is missing pleas let me know via mail or comments!
Apart from that I’m third time GSoC student (and that Eclipse got 17 slots!) there is another good news for me … on the list of accepted proposals in Eclipse Foundation there is 6 (six!) student’s names that looks like there are from Poland! Yeah! 1/3 of Eclipse GSoC students seams to be from Poland, this is really great information! Next great thing is that four projects are mentored by Polish mentors! Great work guys! And good luck 
And last but not least, as far as I know there is one other student from my university that was accepted in GSoC11. This is some kind of regression comparing to 2010 edition where there were three accepted students. Maybe in next edition this will be improved, we’ll see.
After announcement the “community bonding” time begins … but not for me since I’m quite well integrated with EGit community therefore for me the “coding period” starts today ;>
I’ve recently move from vanilla kernel to -ck kernel flavor. What is -ck ? This is set of patches by Con Kolivas that improves desktop performance. By default -ck patches includes Brain Fuck Scheduler (bfs also by Con Kolivas); this scheduler is designed to improve system interactivity and responsiveness in small system, where “small” means less then 16 cpu’s/cores/threads.
Few days ago the new version of vanilla kernel (2.6.38.4) was released, two or three days before the new version of bfs (401) was also released. Unfortunately -ck patches didn’t get an update, so I’ve decided to play a little bit with it.
First of all I’ve spotted that -ck apples bfs as a first patch, so second step wast to find out where bfs patch ends … this was a really easy task. With this knowledge I could easily extract old version of bfs from -ck3. Then both patches can be contacted and applied on vanilla 2.6.38.4. First compilation shows that function above_background_load was removed from bfs401, fortunately it was used only once
I’m using this kernel (2.6.38.4-ck3-bfs401) for two days without any problems so it seams that my combination of those patches doesn’t brake anything. If you want to try this on your own, here is 2.6.38.4-ck3-bfs401.patch
I’m honored to invite every one of you to next meetup of Szczecin Java User Group. This time Kazik ‘morisil’ Pogoda will be speaking about Dependency Injection library form Google called Guice. Before getting deep into Guice he’ll explain what exactly DI is. Then we’ll dive into Guice based example application.
This is a first from a series of lectures about Dependency Injection in java by Kazik. The next one will cover Gin, dependency injection library for GWT based on Guice.
If you are interested in those topics feel free to join us 28th of April (more detailed information about time and place you can find on poster above).
Few days ago (exactly 2010-03-16) was a first anniversary of my first contribution into EGit project. Here is my very simple first patch sent into EGit’s Gerrit. It only replaces some old type loops with for-each loop, this is how it starts … Then I implement a tagging dialog, after that Google Summer of Code 2010 comes during with I was implementing Synchronization View support … and so on.
Now when I’m looking on my ohloh account I’m quite surprised with my contribution size. Currently it shows 127 commits and almost 18000 code lines changed. For me those statistics are something that I can be proud of
We’ll see what next year will bring ;>
This was a very successful day for EGit team and me at EclipseCon. Its starts from very successful tutorial on EGit by Chris Aniszczyk, Matthias Sohn, Shawn Pearce and Stefan Lay. I think that this was largest simultaneous EGit testing that we ever had . Some bugs ware found during this tutorial and we (as a EGit developer team) get the most important thing … a users’ feedback! and we are looking forward for more opinions and hints from you about EGit ;>. Some of the effects of the EGit tutorial can be seen in ours’ gerrit instance
Few hours after EGit Tutorial the results of Eclipse Community Award 2011 were announced … and guess what? The EGit project won in category ‘Most Innovative New Feature or Project’! This is a great success for me and others EGit developers and it is a huge motivation for continue working and improving EGit.
As you might know, I was nominated in ‘Top Contributor’ category, and if you looks carefully on the left hand side picture of ‘Eclipse Community Award’ statue you might notice that there is my name on it … yes I’m a ‘Top Contributor’ in 2011. This whole history with Eclipse Community Awards was a huge surprise for me, starting from nomination, ending on a moment when I was keeping this statue in my hands. I want to thank everyone for voting on EGit project and me in Eclipse Community Awards. Also I want to encourage every Eclipse committer to participate in Google Summer of Code as a menthor … who knows maybe yours feature GSoC student will also be in feature nominated in Eclipse Community Awards … you only need to give him a chance
Apart form that, big thanks to Google and Eclipse Foundation for giving me opportunity to participate in EclipseCon. Without theirs support I can only dream about participating in EclipseCon. Once again, thank Google!, thank Eclipse Foundation!
BTW. Any one flying Friday morning from San Jose to Dallas (AA1252) ? ;>
The 33rd Degree is another conference in English in Poland, next to GeeCON. This year both conferences are located in Krakow.
For me choosing between GeeCON (with I was attending two times) and 33rd degree wasn’t so easy. Finally, as you can see, I’ve decided to go on 33rd Degree (same as my collages from NCDC). There was two main reasons why I’ve made such decision. First of all 33rd Degree has more lectures (there are 4 parallel tracks) and I find most of them interesting for me. Lucky the lectures I want to attend doesn’t overlap currently and I hope that this would not change . Secondly, as I mentioned before I was on GeeCON already I and know what can I suspect from it, the 33rd is something new I and want to give it a try
So, see you on 33rd Degree!
To be honest I haven’t been fallowing anything connected with Eclipse Community Awards, because I was thinking that this isn’t for me as em I a humble EGit commiter. But is seams that some one has different opinion on this, because I was nominated …
You can imagine my surprise when I got an email with information that I’m nominated for Top Contributor. I was totally shock! and can’t believe in this. But then I check Eclipse Community Awards Bulletin and I saw my name on the list of nominated contributors … I believed that this it is true.
I’m honored, I’m truly honored, no mater what the final results would be I’m honored with this nomination!
Finally I want to encourage you to take part in voting for Eclipse Community Awards, especially I encourage to vote on EGit project with was nominated in category: Most Innovative New Feature or Eclipse Project
Synchronize view in EGit doesn’t show non-workspace files from its very beginning. This issue seams to be very complicated and also it seams to require lots of hacking on team framework and eclipse API.
Few days ago Ilya Ivanov from Intland pushed into our gerrit a patch that should fix this issue. I was very surprised that this change is so small and simple. It only works partially because the compare editor cannot be launched for non-workspace files. In my opinion this patch cannot be merge into master branch without this core functionality, so today I spent about 3 or 4 hours hacking on that topic … and here are results:
As you can see, there is master pom file (with isn’t imported into eclipse workspace) in synchronize view and on the left hand side there is a compare editor for it, showing what was changed ;>
Currently both patches are waiting for review in gerrit, but I think that they will be merged into master soon
Last week I spent in Walldorf (Germany) at EGit hackfest. I want to attend on all sessions therefore I’ve decided to go there day before and leave Walldorf day after event. Therefore I had some time that I can spent on short tours in Walldorf and Frankfurt. Here is a short summarization things that we manage to achieve during this time in case of synchronize view in EGit.
With Christian Halstrick we manage to speed up synchronization operation. Our starting point was comparing branch stable-0.7 against stable-0.10 from EGit repository with at the beginning takes around 2 minutes. Then using yourkit profiler we manage to reduce synchronization time down to less then 20 seconds on the same data set! The first set of patches that gives most acceleration were already merged into master and are available in latest nightly build of EGit, but there are also some open change sets in gerrit pending for review that should give some performance boost. Even with this improvements synchronization on some large repositories can take more then 5 minures, therefore this topic is still open for me and I’ll continue to hacking on it in feature. Currently one of the slowest part is mapping path of file/folder from git into eclipse’s workspace resource, but this should be improved by new implementation of IWorkspaceRoot.getFileForLocation()/IWorkspaceRoot.getContainerForLocation() in Eclipse 3.7 ;>
Second task that I manage to start working on during hack sessions is supporting context menu action in synchronization. I didn’t finish it but most of code is currently written. I only need to improve some things and test it. I think that in week or two this change should appear in gerrit.
This was great opportunity for meet persons that I only know from mailing list or code reviews in gerrit, especially to meet Matthias Sohn and Stefan Lay and also rest of EGit team members ;>
I want to thanks Matthias Sohn for organizing such great event and SAP for hosting it!. Many thanks also for my employer NCDC for refunding me part of my trip.
