Hello EGit
developers,
I'm new to EGit development and to Eclipse plugin dev in
general.
Sorry in advance if my questions are basic.
My goal here is to develop, test, and submit a patch that
enables the --follow
feature of git log
that is not available in EGit.
(See also the bug
#302549 about this.)
My first question is about building EGit.
Following the contributor
guide instructions, I managed to build JGit and EGit with
maven 3.
JGit build succeds, but EGit build fails. Unit tests
pass, but several UI tests (swtbot) break.
(I'm first
building the unmodified EGit code from master branch.
I use maven 3.0.3 in a Cygwin bash console.)
Question #1: Should I care about those failures ? Or
are they OK ?
My second question is about testing my modified version of EGit.
The Contributor
Guide only tells about a testing instance at
eclipse.org.
Question #2: Is it possible for me to test locally ?
Do you have any document URL where I would understand how to
proceed ?
Or is the use of a testing instance at eclipse.org mandatory ?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
/Benjamin
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