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Egit overrides skip-worktree bit [message #1821996]

Tue, 25 February 2020 12:39

Alessandro Fardin

Messages: 6
Registered: March 2016

Junior Member

In order to tell git to not consider modified some files exists the command:
git update-index --skip-worktree filename
that set the bit to the corresponding file in the local repository.

That bit shall not be overriden by any git command but --no-skip-worktree.
using git cli command as pull --rebase, reset --hard the bit stay untouched
using the same commands and using the stash from egit iside eclipe, causes the skip-worktree bits to be reseted, so all files results modified once again.
This behavior, causes us to set the skip-worktree bit every time we do a pull-rebase.
This is very inconvenient for us, and some developer has starting complaining and dropped eclipse in favour of VS code.

I've found from egit/jgit bugzilla some related bugs:
Bug 477771
Bug 477745
Bug 477749

I've post on these bus on bugzilla some week ago, but I haven't received any feedback.
Are there any plan to fix the support of --skip-worktree on jgit/egit?

Thank you
regards
Alessandro

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Re: Egit overrides skip-worktree bit [message #1822081 is a reply to message #1821996]

Wed, 26 February 2020 23:11

Matthias Sohn

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Why do you need skip-worktree in your development workflow ?
Are you aware of this note in the git documentation:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-update-index#_notes ?

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Re: Egit overrides skip-worktree bit [message #1822093 is a reply to message #1822081]

Thu, 27 February 2020 07:38

Alessandro Fardin

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Registered: March 2016

Junior Member

Hi Matthias, thank you for reply.
Yes I've read it and I agree with that.
But I can say that using standard git commands or other IDE (with the standard git behavior), our workflow works well.
The developers clone and checkout their repository the run the scripts that sets the skip-worktree commands for all the relevant files and then they are done...
that files stay unchanged whether stash or rebase the need to do.
Anyway I think that eclipse should behave like standard git.
I love eclipse and I hope developer stay with it, but this this problem is causing some migration in my office.

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Re: Egit overrides skip-worktree bit [message #1822615 is a reply to message #1822093]

Tue, 10 March 2020 13:46

Matthias Sohn

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Registered: July 2009

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Maybe you want to contribute the missing support for skip-worktree flag ?

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Re: Egit overrides skip-worktree bit [message #1822704 is a reply to message #1822615]

Wed, 11 March 2020 16:31

Alessandro Fardin

Messages: 6
Registered: March 2016

Junior Member

I'm sorry, but I've no skill in java language and eclipse plugin development and currently I have not much time.
but I would very glad to help you in testing.

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