EGit @ Poznań Eclipse DemoCamp

Yesterday Matthias Sohn, my mentor in Google Sumer of Code, ask me would I like to talk about EGit on Poznan Eclipse DemoCamp. After a moment’s reflection I’ve decided that this a great opportunity for me to get more involved in Eclipse community.

There are not much time for preparation, but I’m not a guy that prefer to have everything fixed, I’m rather prefer to improvise and let thing just happed ;). So I’m plan to have a quick introduction in Git, briefly describe differences between CVS/SVN and Git. Then I’ll move to describe features that we have in EGit 0.8 (that was released yesterday ;)). Last one but not least part would be a live demo covering some day to day use cases, describing how we, our company can benefit from distributed version control system.

btw. This would be my first public speak so I’m feeling stressed … I hope that everything went well during presentation 😉

P.S. I’ll be speaking in Polish of course 😉

EGit 0.8.0 would have UI for tagging

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.

EGit tagging UI is almoust there

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.

Let’s Summer of Code begin !

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Google Summer of Code 2010 … I’m in ;>

Na początku tego roku zastanawiałem się czy wziąć ponownie udział w Google Summer of Code … jak widać po tytule zdecydowałem się wystartować, a nawet mój projekt został zaakceptowany … YEAH! Drugi raz znalazłem się w elitarnym gronie 10001025 studentów z całego świata.

W tegorocznej edycji będę współpracował z Matthias’em Sohn’nem przy rozwoju EGita i JGita (było to do przewidzenia po moich ostatnich wpisach). Dokładniej rzecz ujmując mój projekt obejmuje integrację EGit’a z Synchronization View oraz implementację wsparcja dla schowka (git stash). W tak zwanym między czasie czyli Community Bonding Period chcę zaimplementować UI dla tworzenia tag’ów w EGit’cie, już poczyniłem nawet ku temu pierwsze kroki.

W sumie będzie to dla mnie pewna odmiana w stosunku do Web Developmentu z którym miałem do czynienia do tej pory … zapowiada się ciekawy okres, oj będzie się działo ;> ;D

BTW. W tym roku Wydział Informatyki ZUT ma wyjątkowo wyjątkowo silną reprezentaję. Z moich infromacji wynika, że do SoC zakwalifikowały się jeszcze dwie osoby:

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