Re: Need help for migration from CVS to git in one go (ie, FORGETTING CVS history)

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

torsdag 06 november 2008 02:28:20 skrev Francis Galiegue:
> [...]
>  
> > > > > * "git stash": is it supported?
> > > >
> > > > Not in Eclipse, no.
> > >
> > > What do you mean by this?
> >
> > I mean there's no implementation of git stash.  Eclipse doesn't
> > support git stash, the notion of the stash, the branch the stash
> > is on.  Its not in the Eclipse plugin.
> >
> 
> While I'm a total newbie to Eclipse, and not that fluent with Java, this looks 
> surprising. Is it really Eclipse that is at fault here? Eclipse saves its 
> workspace (whatever it means to "save a workspace") when it exits, isn't 
> there an interface that you can implement that does "partial" saves, hence 
> git stashes?

The fault is that it has not been implemented yet, It's not Eclipse's fault. The
plugin simply lacks support for it. You can do that with Git though. I use both
tools side by side.

> > > > > * can you "copy" a commit, or even a set of commits, and
> > > > > "cherry-pick" them into another branch? Or even rebase a branch onto
> > > > > antoher?
> > > >
> > > > Not in Eclipse, no.
> > >
> > > Same question... What exactly is the problem with Eclipse wrt this kind
> > > of operation?
> >
> > Its also not implemented in the eclipse UI.
> 
> Eclipse has the ability to apply patches AFAIK... Even though this may not be 
> equivalent to a git cherry-pick, wouldn't there be a way to extract at least 
> the diffs and commit messages and apply?

Sure. Solving everything that is missing is a matter of actually coding the feature.
Unfortunately we have very little time at our disposal, which is why we welcome
contributions. 

-- robin


-- robin