From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: hello git world! Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:10:36 +0200 Message-ID: <200710102210.38421.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <01e901c80b13$d3e937a0$6400a8c0@computer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Philippe Ombredanne" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 10 22:08:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ifhr6-0008Rm-Oo for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:08:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755533AbXJJUIY (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:08:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755515AbXJJUIX (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:08:23 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:24016 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755406AbXJJUIX (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:08:23 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8823B802817; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:59:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20787-04; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:59:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.9.0.6] (unknown [10.9.0.6]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9418003E1; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:59:51 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <01e901c80b13$d3e937a0$6400a8c0@computer> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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