Chris Aniszczyk's (zx) diatribe

We are close to releasing EGit and JGit 1.0 for Indigo, so I figure I’d take the time to share a new feature. If you’re a fan of annotating source files with revision and author information, EGit now has support for blame annotations (via the Team->Show Blame Annotations menu):

From there, you can easily jump to the commit viewer from the popup…

Happy blaming!

The past few days I’ve been cleaning up a contribution to EGit that allows you to use Git as a PDE Build fetch factory.

This is important for some projects (like e4) who are using PDE Build in a certain way that requires the Git fetch factory. At the moment, you can download the fetch factory from the EGit PDE Tools nightly repository.

http://download.eclipse.org/egit/pde/updates-nightly

The map file format is: type@id,[version]=GIT,args

Where args is a comma-separated list of key-value pairs.

Accepted args include:

• tag* – mandatory Git tag
• repo* – mandatory repo location
• path – optional path relative to repo which points to the element (otherwise it’s assumed that the element is at the repository root)
• prebuilt – optional boolean value indicating that the path points to a pre-built bundle in the repository

Fetching is implemented as a three step process:

• The repository is cloned to local disc. If it already exists, it is assumed that it was previously cloned and just new commits will be fetched
• The specified tag will be checked out in the local clone
• The content of the path will be copied to the final build location

If you come across any issues, let us know via the mailing list or bugzilla.