Show non-workspace resources in Git Change Set

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 😉