From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Need help for migration from CVS to git in one go (ie, FORGETTING CVS history) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:18:25 +0100 Message-ID: <200811062218.26428.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> References: <200811060014.57046.fg@one2team.net> <20081105234425.GA2932@spearce.org> <200811060228.21124.fg@one2team.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Francis Galiegue X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 06 22:19:55 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KyCGa-0001oG-1Y for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:19:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751340AbYKFVSc (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:18:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751272AbYKFVSb (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:18:31 -0500 Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net ([81.228.11.159]:60644 "EHLO pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200AbYKFVSb (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:18:31 -0500 Received: from sleipner.localnet (213.67.100.250) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.3.129) id 4843FAEB025972EE; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:18:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.27-7-generic; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <200811060228.21124.fg@one2team.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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