[yocto] Eclipse Plugin EGit investigation result

[Zhang, Jessica]

Liping,

Thanks for the thorough analysis of EGIT, as you pointed it mainly for team
setup which is not what we want.  Can you download the source and see how it
interact with git and probably we can borrow some ideas to achieve some
simple git tasks, e.g. commit changes etc.

Thanks,
Jessica

Ke, Liping wrote:
> Hi, Jessica
> 
> I have tried the existing egit plugin. It is a true powerful plugin,
> but I am afraid it can't be communicating well with poky-meta-project
> plugin.  
> 
> Below is some details
> advantages:
> 1. EGIT support all sorts of protocols, including ftp, ssh, git,
> http, so we can easily pull/push the codebase from any sorts of
> repository.  
> 2. EGIT use eclipse network proxy settings, so we need not worry
> about how to visit outside repository. 
> 3. EGIT use eclipse SSH configurations, so we can easily commit
> codebase to contrib.git with ssh protocols, (public key and private
> key)  
> 4. Support almost any git command, push, pull, cherrypick, reset,
> track, untrack, merge, branch, tag, very powerful. 
> 
> 
> Although I met some bugs, but in a whole, the UI is very beautiful
> and seems the plugin is really well developed. 
> 
> Usage Scenario
> It is in nature a TEAM plugin ( in eclipse, CVS is a default team
> plugin, and this is another which has not been integrated with
> eclipse by default)  
> 
> 1. You can new a project (any type, by any means), and click the
> project name, right click the mouse, select team menu, and share this
> project by  
> Configuring git repository. Then a local git repository is setup,
> your project is now traced by the local git repository. Then, you can
> use all sorts of  
> git tools, commit, push, pull, branch, add, untrack, anything you
> want. You can also fetch from a remote repository. 
> 
> 2. Import a project from GIT
> Select File->Import->Projects From Git->Clone->Fill git clone
> configuration->Select branch->Create a new repository->Select the
> repository->Projects Creation Wizard->Show available projects from
> the created Repository cloned just now. Such is org.yocto.sdk.site,
> org.yocto.sdk.remotetools will be shown.    
> After that, everything will be tracked by git, and you can
> push/commit anything you like if you set git configuration properly. 
> 
> 
> I also tried another working model for editing poky-meta data.
> 1. File->import->import from GIT repository.
> 2. Pull down poky.git, select master branch.
> 3. Import as General Project.
> 4. A general project is setup. Poky folders(meta, bitbake...) are
> there. But it is general project, since no project specific
> information in remote repository. So eclipse can only set up it as
> general-not-knowing project.   
> 5. Everything is tracked by local repository now.
> 
> 
> But both of the two usage scenario can't be adapted to our needs. We
> need git support during project creation phase. And the remote
> repository is not a project. So neither new project mode nor import
> project from remote repository will work.   
> 
> I will download the source code to have a look and see whether we
> could extract some code from it and satisfy our needs. But I feel
> since it is actually a "team" pluin, its infrastructure should be
> "team" related. So it's impossible to use it in one of your project
> creation period unless we totally reform it. I can't expect the
> effort right now... I guess the whole plugin would be very complex,
> since it integrates into many parts of eclipse menus.      
> 
> Thanks& Regards,
> criping
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