[EGIT RFC] Git Repository Exploring

[EGIT RFC] Git Repository Exploring

[Roger C. Soares]

My first contact with egit was with the version that comes with fedora. 
I tried to "checkout" a git project in many ways but none seemed to 
work. Only a week later I read somewhere on the web that I had to import 
an already cloned repo into eclipse and then go to Team -> Share Project.

So, to make it easier for new users coming from cvs or svn, my current 
idea is to add a Git Repository Exploring Perspective and as soon as 
possible give an warning that clone isn't there yet and how the user 
should proceed.  Would it be ok?

[]s,
Roger.

Re: [EGIT RFC] Git Repository Exploring

[Robin Rosenberg]

tisdagen den 5 februari 2008 skrev Roger C. Soares:
> My first contact with egit was with the version that comes with fedora. 
> I tried to "checkout" a git project in many ways but none seemed to 
> work. Only a week later I read somewhere on the web that I had to import 
> an already cloned repo into eclipse and then go to Team -> Share Project.
> 
> So, to make it easier for new users coming from cvs or svn, my current 
> idea is to add a Git Repository Exploring Perspective and as soon as 
> possible give an warning that clone isn't there yet and how the user 
> should proceed.  Would it be ok?

Yes, but what infrastructure would that exploring facility work on? 
Known gitweb's? 

Anyway, by that time my fetch might be there. I was thinking about integrating
it with File/Import and add a new Git>Clone source and just have a dialog where
one could paste a URL-ish, user/password, or ssh public key. If you want to have
go at the dialog, I'd appreciate that.

I need to do at least basic local ref management in the fetching first, and maybe
some more test cases. Speed is slightly slower than the C version, but not terribly
so.

-- robin

Re: [EGIT RFC] Git Repository Exploring

[Robin Rosenberg]

tisdagen den 5 februari 2008 skrev Roger C. Soares:
> My first contact with egit was with the version that comes with fedora. 
> I tried to "checkout" a git project in many ways but none seemed to 
> work. Only a week later I read somewhere on the web that I had to import 
> an already cloned repo into eclipse and then go to Team -> Share Project.

Eclipse has the cheat sheet thing that I've never dug into so far. 

-- robin

Re: [EGIT RFC] Git Repository Exploring

[Roger C. Soares]

Robin Rosenberg escreveu:
> Yes, but what infrastructure would that exploring facility work on? 
> Known gitweb's? 
>
> Anyway, by that time my fetch might be there. I was thinking about integrating
> it with File/Import and add a new Git>Clone source and just have a dialog where
> one could paste a URL-ish, user/password, or ssh public key. If you want to have
> go at the dialog, I'd appreciate that.
>
> I need to do at least basic local ref management in the fetching first, and maybe
> some more test cases. Speed is slightly slower than the C version, but not terribly
> so.
>   
I didn't really think about implementing anything for the exploring 
facility, at least not now. At the moment I like your dialog idea a lot 
more, so I'll give it a try.

[]s,
Roger.