Chris Aniszczyk's (zx) diatribe

Shawn Pearce and I are giving a webinar on July 13th about Understanding and Using Git at Eclipse…

The EGit project is implementing Eclipse tooling on top of JGit, the Java implementation of Git. Both EGit and JGit moved to Eclipse in May 2009 and shipped 0.8 with Helios. The EGit and JGit teams are busily working towards 0.9 which is targeted for Helios SR1 (September 2010). This webinar will give an update on the project progress and more detailed information about the design and features. A demo will illustrate how it’s used in its own development process. It will also show how Gerrit Code Review, a JGit based review system developed for the needs of the Android community, can help to further improve development processes.

Please register if you want to attend and learn more about Git and Eclipse.

On a side note, there will be a free GitTogether event October 25-27th at Google HQ. Git contributors and users alike are welcome to attend. If you’re interested in Git and in the bay area, please consider attending.

Last week the EGit and JGit teams pushed out 0.8.4 as the final contribution to the Eclipse Helios release. A few people praised the teams on how quickly progress is coming along which is great. A few people have also asked about what is officially support in EGit versus typical command line usage so here’s a picture to help with that…

A few people have also pinged me about a Maven repository for JGit. You can find information on the repository on our download page.

An important thing to note is that I still consider the 0.8 release a beta (we are still in incubation). If you’re familiar with the Git CLI, the tooling should be pretty easy to pick up. We are planning to do a 0.9 release in late September for Helios SR1 which should contain the last missing pieces needed for mass adoption of Git within the Eclipse community. For now, if you like to live on the bleeding edge please give the 0.8 release a try and report any issues you find.

So I have good news for those who are interested in improved Git tooling at Eclipse. The EGit and JGit projects are coordinating over the next couple weeks to release 0.8.0 which will be part of the Eclipse Helios release. So what’s changed? Here’s a brief list of new and noteworthy items for 0.8.0

• EGit
  • Improved Import Repository Wizard
  • A new Git Repositories view
  • The team menu was cleaned up
  • Merge support
  • Tagging
• JGit
  • Git Porcelain APIs
  • Internationalization Support
  • Performance improvements around pack creation

Well, we have managed to attract some new contributors to the project which is great. Sure, there are still some things missing in 0.8.0 (e.g., rebasing support) but we are definitely making progress. The next release after 0.8.0 will be o.9.0 and that will happen in about 3-4 months from now. We plan to iterate quick based on feedback from our community of users. A lot of the EGit team members have also been doing a good job of dogfooding more and more.

If you want to help us test 0.8.0 release candidates, please grab EGit from the nightly repository and help us dogfood 🙂

Shawn Pearce (Google) and I will be giving a webinar on Understanding and Using Git at Eclipse in mid July. We’ll try our best to brainwash you.

By that time, more projects will have moved to Git at Eclipse (and even elsewhere) and EGit/JGit 0.8.0 will be out so we will have more goodies to share with everyone.

So what are you waiting for, register in advance.

If you want to us to discuss anything special, please let me know via the comments.

The EGit/JGit teams are happy to announce the EGit and JGit 0.7.1 release.

You can install it by pointing to this software repository in Eclipse:

• http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates

This marks the first official release of EGit and JGit at Eclipse.org and a big step towards Git at Eclipse. This release was mostly focused on the move to Eclipse.org and infrastructure related items. It’s important to note that this release is still an incubation release. I don’t want to be cliche, but Rome wasn’t built in a day.

It’s especially hard that people have been spoiled by the quality of the CVS tooling at Eclipse. On the whole, we are rapidly working on improving JGit and the tooling but require community feedback to make it happen. The workflows aren’t perfect yet but the tooling works well in many cases.

So now that you understand a bit, how can you help?

• You can file bugs when you hit issues
• You can file enhancements
• Check out our Gerrit instance if you want to push any patches to the EGit/JGit teams
• Want to contribute? Check out our extensive contributor guide and mailing list
• Want to improve the documentation? It’s all on the wiki, you can contribute without being a committer!

The goal is to have 0.8.0 go out just before the Eclipse Helios release (June 2010). We plan on adding a Git Repositories view, further expanding http support and cleaning up the user interface. With the help from the community, I expect great things by the Helios release. On top of that, we expect to have one or two Google Summer of Code (GSOC) students working on improvements.

For now, put your beta testing hats on and explore what EGit and JGit has to offer.

We thrive on community feedback and involvement.