1 == Java GIT and Eclipse GIT plugin ==
3 Parts of this package are licensed under the GPL, and others are
4 licensed under the LGPL and EPL. Please refer to the COPYING
5 and LICENSE files for the complete licenses within each package,
6 and please refer to the individual source file header to determine
7 which license covers it.
10 This package is actually composed of three major components plus
15 A pure Java library capable of being run standalone, with no
16 additional support libraries. Some JUnit tests are provided
17 to exercise the library. The library provides functions to
18 read and write a GIT formatted repository.
20 All portions of jgit are covered by the GPL. Absolute no EPL
21 contributions are accepted within this package.
23 org.spearce.egit.core/
25 An Eclipse plugin providing an interface to org.spearce.jgit
26 and support routines to allow processing against the Eclipse
27 workspace and resource APIs, rather than the standard Java
28 file APIs. It also supplies the team provider implementation.
30 Portions of this package are covered under the LGPL and others
31 under the EPL. Refer to individual file headers for details.
35 An Eclipse plugin providing the user interface on top of
36 org.spearce.egit.core.
38 Portions of this package are covered under the LGPL and others
39 under the EPL. Refer to individual file headers for details.
41 org.spearce.egit.core.test/
43 Unit tests for org.spearce.egit.core.
47 A plugin for packaging
49 org.spearce.egit-feature
51 Also packaging. This project is for building an Eclipse "feature"
52 out of the plugins above.
54 org.spearce.egit-updatesite/
56 This package is for producing and update site, i.e. a web site
57 you can point your eclipse at and just upgrade.
60 == WARNINGS / CAVEATS ==
62 - The plugin could lockup your Eclipse workbench. I've tried to
63 make it stable and function in such a way that it can't crash
64 the workbench, but that doesn't mean it won't. :-)
66 - This package might eat your files. Everything I've added to a
67 repository with it has unpacked properly both with itself and
68 with the canonical C based implementation, but that doesn't mean
69 it won't generate a corrupt object.
71 - Symbolic links are not supported because java does not support it.
72 Such links could be damaged.
74 - Only the timestamp of the index is used by jgit check if the index
77 - Don't try the plugin with a JDK other than 1.6 (Java 6) unless you
78 are prepared to investigate problems yourself. JDK 1.5.0_11 and later
79 Java 5 versions *may* work. Earlier versions do not. JDK 1.4 is *not*
80 supported. Apple's Java 1.5.0_07 is reported to work acceptably. We
81 have no information about other vendors. Please report your findings
84 - Do not trust this plugin to always do the right thing (yet). Please
85 check with the real Git and report any problems.
90 - Eclipse 3.2.1 is the minimum Eclipse version. Expect this to change
93 - Newer version of EGit/JGit may implement new functionality, remove
94 existing functios and change others without other notice than what
95 is written in the commit log and source files themselves.
98 == Package Features ==
102 * Read loose and packed commits, trees, blobs, including
105 * Read objects from shared repositories
107 * Write loose commits, trees, blobs.
109 * Write blobs from local files or Java InputStreams.
111 * Read blobs as Java InputStreams.
113 * Copy trees to local directory, or local directory to a tree.
115 * Lazily loads objects as necessary.
117 * Read and write .git/config files.
119 * Create a new repository.
121 * Read and write refs, including walking through symrefs.
123 * Read, update and write the Git index.
125 * Checkout in dirty working directory if trivial.
127 * Walk a the history from a given set of commits looking for commits
128 introducing changed in a path.
130 org.spearce.egit.core/
132 * Supplies an Eclipse team provider.
134 * Connect/disconnect the provider to a project.
136 * Search for the repositories associated with a project by
137 autodecting the GIT repository directories.
139 * Store which repositories are tied to which containers in the
142 * Tracks moves/renames/deletes and reflects them in the cache
145 * Resolves through linked containers.
149 * Connect team provider wizard panels.
151 * Connect to GIT team provider by making a new repository.
153 * Connect to GIT team provider by searching local filesystem
154 for existing repository directories.
156 * Team actions: track (add), untrack (remove), disconnect, show
157 history, compare version, show history.
159 * Resource decorator shows file/directory state in the package
160 explorer and other views.
162 * Creating new commits or amending commits.
164 * Graphical history viewer with the ability to compare versions
165 using eclipse built-in compare editor.
167 == Missing Features ==
169 There are a lot of missig features. You need the real Git for this.
170 For some operations it may just be the preferred solution also. There
171 are not just a command line, there is e.g. git-gui that makes committing
172 partial files simple.
174 - GIT network protocol to pull objects from a remote repository or
175 push objects to a remote repository.
179 - Repacking from withine the plugin.
181 - Generate a GIT format patch.
183 - Apply a GIT format patch.
187 - Windows support is new and very little tested. Do not blame us if
188 it blows, but tell us about it and what you did. Double check
191 - gitattributes support
192 In particular CRLF conversion is not implemented. Files are treated
196 Submodules are not supported or even recognized.
198 - The Eclipse plygin cannot handle files outside any Eclipse project. You
199 need commit changes to such files outside of Eclipse.
201 - Speed in some areas
203 Java is "slooow", they say. Not true as a general statement. A lot of Java
204 code is slow because it it not optimized (to some extent due to this
205 belief). Java has quite good performance although it cannot compete with
206 C code written by good hackers simply because C can be optimized more than
207 Java when you actually do it and have the skills to do it. Some areas of
208 the plugin have been optimized but not all and not conclusively. In general
209 however Java almost always needs more memory than an application written in
210 e.g. C. In particular there is an overhead from the rather large standard
211 libraries that a normal Java installations comes with. See the ACM report:
213 Prechelt, L. 1999. Technical opinion: comparing Java vs. C/C++
214 efficiency differences to interpersonal differences. Commun. ACM 42,
215 10 (Oct. 1999), 109-112. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/317665.317683
217 for an interesting comparison of C, C++ and Java. It is somewhat dated so
218 the comparison involved Java 1.2, i.e. without hotspot that appeared in Java
219 1.3 and the shared runtime in 1.4. Those features made common Java
220 applications many times faster than with Java 1.2
222 The conclusion from having about 30 programmers write a program to the same
223 specification using their own choice of language (from C,C++ and Java) is
224 that the skills of the programmer is what determines the performance of the
225 code rather than choice of programming language.
227 JGit is much slower (measured up to eight times for some random cases), but
228 then the real Git is ridicilously fast.
233 Post question, comments patches to the git@vger.kernel.org mailing list.
238 See SUBMITTING_PATCHES in this directory. However, feedback and bug reports
239 are also contributions.
244 More information about GIT, its repository format, and the canonical
245 C based implementation can be obtained from the GIT websites:
248 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
249 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/