2011/6/16 Benjamin Gandon
<benje@xxxxxxxxxx>
Le 15/06/2011 15:52, Matthias Sohn a écrit :
2011/6/15 Benjamin Gandon
<benje@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.)
that's great :-)
You may consider to add this functionality first
to jgit CLI
(class org.eclipse.jgit.pgm.Log)
and maybe also jgit API (class
org.eclipse.jgit.api.LogCommand)
to get the jgit part right and then do the
integration with the history view.
Actually I already had 80% of the work done. Porting the --follow feature
of JGit into the GitHistoryPage class was just
about setting a FollowFilter as tree filter of the
current walk (well in the right circumstances).
My problem was just how to test that. I finally
realized I could use a dedicated test instance of Eclipse. In
which I would install EGit with this update-site archive
generated by the build process. I added a
section about that in the contributor guide.
This works but it's a quite expensive way to test a new feature.
Instead just launch EGit from the Eclipse instance you are using to implement the feature,
add a launch configuration :
- click "Run > Run Configurations..."
- select "Eclipse Application"
- click "New Launch Configuration" button in the top left corner
- name the new configuration e.g. "EGit"
- in the Plugins tab you can see which plugins get started, by default these are all plugin available in platform + all plugins available from
the open projects
- click "Run"
this will start another Eclipse instance you can use for testing, if you want to debug start the same configuration
in debug mode : click "Run > Debug Configurations...", select your launch configuration and click "Debug"
This is very basic Eclipse know-how I think it's a bit too basic to include that into the contributor guide ...
what do you think ?
