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[EGit] (How) can I get a git history of a folder? [message #580926]

Tue, 01 June 2010 19:33

Kay Huber

Messages: 36
Registered: July 2009

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Hi all

Using latest nightly EGit 0.8.0.201005311531 and JGit 0.8.0.201005300828

Is it possible (yet) to see the git history of a folder? It currently looks like it's not.

Regards
Kay

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Re: [EGit] (How) can I get a git history of a folder? [message #580942 is a reply to message #580926]

Tue, 01 June 2010 20:11

Robin Rosenberg

Messages: 332
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Kay Huber wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Using latest nightly EGit 0.8.0.201005311531 and JGit 0.8.0.201005300828
>
> Is it possible (yet) to see the git history of a folder? It currently
> looks like it's not.

Works here. You may be looking at a place where there is only the initial
contribution visible when a path filter is applied. EGit does not support
grafts yet, which means that the history may be much shorter in EGit than in
C Git.

-- robin

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Re: [EGit] (How) can I get a git history of a folder? [message #581168 is a reply to message #580926]

Fri, 04 June 2010 21:21

Matthias Sohn

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

See http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#History_View_Configu ration

- select the folder you want to see the history for e.g. in package explorer
- Show In > History should open the git history view
- ensure that none of the filter toggle buttons is down [1]

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Image:Egit-0.8-history-view-toggle-n one.png

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Re: [EGit] (How) can I get a git history of a folder? [message #581756 is a reply to message #580926]

Mon, 28 June 2010 09:53

Mike Wilson

Messages: 9
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Making the history command available through ShowIn only is *extremely* confusing and just plain wrong. The ShowIn menu section isn't even shown in Eclipse's Java EE perspective so I spent an hour trying to find this!

Bad design isn't justified by documenting it in the User Guide. Any team provider in Eclipse should try to follow the precedent of the existing CVS and SVN providers when possible. If someone think they are smarter than that, then please put work in to synchronize changes with the CVS and SVN providers as well, and relieve the rest of us from hide-and-seek games.

I have no problem with history being available in ShowIn also, but removing it from the Team menu will confuse users forever. The person behind this patch needs to step up and defend this change.

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Re: [EGit] (How) can I get a git history of a folder? [message #581766 is a reply to message #581756]

Mon, 28 June 2010 13:51

Stefan Lay

Messages: 342
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

"Mike Wilson" <mikewse@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:i09rdr$ol9$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Making the history command available through ShowIn only is *extremely*
> confusing and just plain wrong. The ShowIn menu section isn't even shown
> in Eclipse's Java EE perspective so I spent an hour trying to find this!

I agree that we should show that menu item in the context menu again.

> Bad design isn't justified by documenting it in the User Guide. Any team
> provider in Eclipse should try to follow the precedent of the existing CVS
> and SVN providers when possible. If someone think they are smarter than
> that, then please put work in to synchronize changes with the CVS and SVN
> providers as well, and relieve the rest of us from hide-and-seek games.

Huh, you are very passionate? But I do not believe that someone thinks he or
she is smarter than anybody else. At least I do not see anything that
indicates that, do you? I believe that he or she just was not aware of the
fact that the ShowIn menu section is not shown in some perspectives.

Stefan

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