Re: hello git world!

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

onsdag 10 oktober 2007 skrev Philippe Ombredanne:
> Hello:
Hi Philippe,

> I am a committer on Eclipse and several Eclipse-related projects, as
> well as the admin (and a mentor too) for the Eclipse summer of code
> program.
> My day job is about the same: Eclipse and tools for paying customers :-)
> I met Shawn Pearce and  Johannes Schindelin this week-end at Google for
> the Summer of Code mentor summit.
> Incidentally a week before I had tried git for the 1st time, out of need
> trying to build an eclipse plugin available only through git
> (http://robrohan.com/projects/afae/ )
> After a few minutes I was checking out and building more git stuffs
> including egit of course.
> 
> I basically fell in love with Git, just like that. I am frightened --
> like when you fall in love-- about the power and implications of a
> distributed version control system :-P

We know how you feel :) 

> Being an Eclipse and tools guy, I'll try to help on the egit and java
> git side (for non eclipse based java tools) . I have played a little
> experience with team support in Eclipse, and high expectations for egit
> from using things such as the CVS, Subclipse and Subversive plugins for
> Eclipse.
> 
> One of the ideas Shawn and I floated was that we could work towards
> making egit an official Eclipse project. 
> Being somewhat plugged at Eclipse, I can help broker that, if it makes
> sense for the git community.
> I look forward to the discussion there.

I'm all ears.

> I think this would go a long way to attract more committers on egit, and
> make git a very accessible tool to millions of Eclipse users.
> I will also make egit installers available through the easyeclipse
> distro I maintain.

Then you might want to look at a problem I had with the update-site in the
egit repo. I can only locate the plugin as a new plugin. Upgrade won't find it.


-- robin