Dariusz Łuksza

I’ve promised you that when my patch set with tagging UI will be accepted I’ll describe all features that are implemented. Patch set were accepted and merged during GeeCON conference so that I can’t done that immediately after it happened. Now when everything back’s to normal I can present you new feature of EGit that will be available in 0.8.0 release.

Creating tag.

To create tag select ‘Team -> Tag…‘ from project’s context menu. After this you should see dialog window similar to this one:

If you start typing tag name into ‘Tag name‘ field, the ‘Existing tags‘ list will be filtered based on typed value also you are informed that this tag name already exists and you cannot create such tag:

Right now we only support creating unsigned annotated tags, so after you choose unique name for your’s new tag you must fill in ‘Tag message‘ filed with message that will be associated with this tag.

Now when you have both fields filled in you can click ‘OK‘ button (or ctrl + enter) to create tag that will be associated with current HEAD. In case if you want to associate tag with specific commit you should expand ‘Advanced‘ section (just simply click on ‘Advanced‘ text) where you can find select box that contains list of all commits. This input have special suggest feature, just start typing commit’s SHA-1 or part of first line of existing commit messages to see suggestions:

Then you can select commit that will be associated with new tag from filtered list of commits.

Editing tag.

In case of editing already existing tag (changing tag message or associated commit) you should select ‘Team -> Tag…‘ from project’s context menu. Click on tag name that should be changed in ‘Existing tag list‘ (you can also filter that list by typing in tag name into ‘Tag name‘ filed):

As you can see I’ve selected ‘v0.1′ tag. Right now ‘Tag name‘ and ‘Tag message‘ fields are disabled (also tag associated commit field in advanced section is disabled), you can enable it by selecting ‘Force replace existing tag‘.

Now you can easily change tag message and/or commit that is associated with this particular and then approve that changes by clicking on ‘OK‘ button.

Here is (I think) first screen shot of EGit tagging dialog. Right now patch set that contains it isn’t accepted but UI shouldn’t change much

After it’s be accepted I’ll describe all included features.

After yesterday’s Google announcement of accepted students it is time to move on with project because there are lots of thins to do and features lots to implement . My first task, required by Eclipse Foundation, was to create an wiki page that will describe my project … and here it is.

It is generally based on my proposal with I’ve decided to publish. I think that in next few days I’ll also publish my last year’s proposal (also accepted) for Apache Software Foundation. If you plan to take part in next Summer of Code edition those proposals could be very helpful to get an overview how it should look like

Right now I’m working on tagging support for EGit. First version of this it can is already available in Gerrit. Next version of it I’ve plan to submit before Saturday.