Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

tisdag 21 november 2006 21:05 skrev Shawn Pearce:
> lamikr <lamikr@cc.jyu.fi> wrote:
> > Shawn Pearce wrote:
> > >   - No GUI.
> >
> > QGIT allows using some commands. I plan to try out the GIT eclipse
> > plugin in near future myself.
> > This mail list have some discussion and download link to it's repo in
> > archives.
> > (title: Java GIT/Eclipse GIT version 0.1.1, )
>
> I'm the author of that plugin.  :-)
>
> Its not even capable of making a commit yet.  The underling plumbing
> (aka jgit) can make commits but the Eclipse GUI has no function to
> actually invoke that plumbing and make a commit to the repository.
>
> The Eclipse plugin has apparently been a low priority for me.
> I haven't worked on it very recently.  Robin Rosenburg has supposedly
> gotten the revision compare interface to work, but its slow as a
> duck in November due to jgit's pack reading code not running as
> fast as it should.

Slow it is. It is somewhat usable though, especially the quickdiff. I worked 
the whole day with help from quickdiff today. The diff is computed against 
HEAD^ (i.e. I get to see the changes that my topmost StGit patch introduces).

The project contains 20000+ files and six years of history.  Reading the whole 
history is out of the question with the current performance so I restrict 
reading to 500 entries which is just about bearable. That's enough for 
practical use with quickdiff and compare though. Improving jgit's speed 50 
times will probably be enough to make jgit shine. 

Activating the Git connection seems to be a problem with the egit projects, 
i.e. it works sometimes, but not with my much bigger repo. The only problem 
is that the first time is dog slow. The structure is different though, as my 
repo has .project at the top, not one level down.