EclipseCon 2010 talk: Towards contributors heaven

Towards Contributor's Heaven From CVS and SVN to Git Shawn Pearce Robin Rosenberg Matthias Sohn eclipse.org/egit

What is Git? Distributed Version Control System Patch management Created for the Linux Kernel E-mail based contributions Thousands of contributors High activity Parallel development Strong focus on code review eclipse.org/egit

Distributed Version Control

Distributed Version Control Enables every contributor ... not just committers Has full history ... locally Can branch, merge, rebase ... locally Can exchange work with others ... peer to peer Superior branch, merge functionality eclipse.org/egit

Distributed Version Control eclipse.org/egit

Chaos? Projects use only a subset of potential workflows Individuals use personal workflows that others do not see Examples: Git (C implementation) All contributions are e-mailed EGit/JGit All contributions via Gerrit (Used to be e-mail) Linux kernel All contributions e-mailed Subsystem maintainers also pull eclipse.org/egit

Git Internals Crash Course Cryptographic signatures ... ensures data integrity Snapshot based ... saves whole project eclipse.org/egit

Git Internals Crash Course Cryptographic signatures ... ensures data integrity Snapshot based ... saves whole project History stored as graph ... accurate records eclipse.org/egit

Git Internals Crash Course Cryptographic signatures ... ensures data integrity Snapshot based ... saves whole project History stored as graph ... accurate records Smarter merges ... makes branching cheap eclipse.org/egit

EGit Project History

EGit Project History 2005 Linus Torvalds starts Git 2006 Proof-of-concept, quite unusable Not a "port", ground-up pure Java Originally one project eclipse.org/egit

EGit Project History 2005 Linus Torvalds starts Git 2006 Proof-of-concept, quite unusable Not a "port", ground-up pure Java Originally one project 2007 Index reader, quickdiff First useful minimal functionality versions eclipse.org/egit

EGit Project History 2005 Linus Torvalds starts Git 2006 Proof-of-concept, quite unusable Not a "port", ground-up pure Java Originally one project 2007 Index reader, quickdiff First useful versions 2008 Add history view, commit, push/fetch Much more usable License change ( EGit: EPL, JGit: BSD/EDL ) eclipse.org/egit

EGit Project History 2005 Linus Torvalds starts Git 2006 Proof-of-concept, quite unusable 2007 Index reader, quickdiff 2008 Add history view, commit, push/fetch 2009 >5000 downloads/month Split into two projects EGit - team provider JGit - reusable library Moved to Eclipse.org eclipse.org/egit

EGit Project History 2005 Linus Torvalds starts Git 2006 Proof-of-concept, quite unusable 2007 Index reader, quickdiff 2008 Add history view, commit, push/fetch 2009 Moved to Eclipse.org 2010 Diff/Merge Exit Incubation Release 1.0 eclipse.org/egit

Why JGit Rocks

Applications Built On JGit Open Source EGit Eclipse Team Provider NBGit Git Support for NetBeans Gerrit Code Review Web based project management and peer code review Buckminster, Maven, JIRA, Hudson, ... eclipse.org/jgit

Applications Built On JGit Open Source EGit Eclipse Team Provider NBGit Git Support for NetBeans Gerrit Code Review Web based project management and peer code review Buckminster, Maven, JIRA, Hudson, ... Commercial TeamCity Commercial continuous integration SmartGit Commercial GUI client CodeBeamer MR Commercial project management eclipse.org/jgit

Current State Usable: clone, commit, push, pull, history, diff Missing: merge, rebase, gc (use C Git command line for now ... coming soon) Performance on par with C More active community Development accelerating Eclipse integration improving eclipse.org/egit

Quick EGit Demo with Gerrit Code Review

Future Standard Eclipse SCM ... migrate from CVS/SVN Standard Eclipse plugin ... shipped in all packages Complete implementation ... no C code required Standard outside Eclipse ... BSD license is very friendly eclipse.org/egit

Thank You Want More? "Understanding and Using Git at Eclipse" Thursday @ 10 am in Stevens Creek eclipse.org/egit

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