Is it possible in EGit to see the simple history of a file?
Team > Show in history shows all commits to all files. Not useful.
I am looking for the history of a file. There is a button in the History view that says Show changes to selected resource but no way to select a resource.
There also does not appear to be any way to compare with a specific version unless that version has a tag.
The pieces seem to be there, but are they put together properly?
(No complex branching or other cleverness. I normally use the command line for this type of work but should not have to.)
You can open a file (or select it from project explorer) and do:
Right Click -> Team -> Show in history. This will open the following view:
The filter circled in red is: "Show all changes of selected resource and its children" which basically will filter only the commits that relate in any way to the resource you've selected (you can chose the different filters to get a better understanding of how they differ from each other).
The problem was that the Team > Show in History needs to be run from the Project Explorer window. When I first found those scoping buttons I right clicked on the class file's edit window and did the Team > Show in History there. That appears to be broken and only shows all changes.
(Thank you for your replies. Knowing that it could be done and by those scope buttons let me look further. I rarely use the Project Explorer, preferring to just type the class/file name into the Navigate dialog.)
Some other answers suggest clicking on Team > Show in History. This menu item does not show up. Instead, Team > Show Local History shows up.
I have Git Staging tab open all the time. I saved a small change to the file I wanted to see the history of. This caused the file to show up in the Unstaged Changes in Git Staging. I then right-clicked on the file, clicked on Show In and then History. This showed me the history of the file according to Git.
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I'm using MercurialEclipse 2.1.0 (looks like latest) with Eclipse Indigo.
I can't seem to find a way to see the entire history of a file as available in remote 'central' repository (e.g. like it works with SVN) -- the history only seems to show up to the revision that I currently have in the workspace (in other words in e.g. Synchronize view (in workspace mode) I can see that there are 'incoming' changes in file but 'Show History' wouldn't show me anything about these changes).
Even if I 'Pull' (without 'Update') and check file history it still seems to stop at the current revision.
Anything I can do?
Is there any way
With MercurialEclipse the Synchronize view works best with the "Mercurial Changesets" model. Switching to that will show all of the incoming changesets (be sure the "All branches" button is pressed).
For the 2nd item, having pulled all the changesets, you can see all history if you press the up arrow button in the history view once. This will show all history for the folder that contains the file.
I am using Star Team plugin in eclipse .
When viewing files in eclipse it appends all the information about the file version,last modified date to the file name but I was not able to append last checked-in author name to file.
Can any one help to identify this in eclipse.
I don't know about this specific plugin, but generally there are three places you check for this:
Preferences -> Team -> Star Team
In the History view, the view menu (upside down triangle on the right)
Also in the History view, check the meaning of all of the buttons on the toolbar there.
If none of those allows additional information, then it is likely that the Star Team provider needs to be extended. File a report with them.
I just created an ignore-on-commit changelist as described in SVN: Is there a way to mark a file as "do not commit"? and it's awesome on the command line, making it much easier to view the changes I care about in the command line.
Having all this power and organization now I select all my projects in eclipse and go to Team > Commit and there is no notion of changelists in the commit dialog and I still have to go through all the changes and tediously select which files to commit.
Am I missing something in Eclipse' Subversive that would allow me to use changelists in the commit dialog?
I found the following setting, but it doesn't seem to change anything...
I see two possibilities here:
1. Using svn:ignore
The easiest solution would be to add the files you don't want to commit to your svn:ignore list.
You can do it in Subversive through the Team>Add to svn:ignore... menu:
2. Using change sets
The alternative is to :
go in the Synchronize view
click the Show Change Sets button
you can then add changed files to change sets (and create new change sets) from the right-click menu.
You can find more information in the Subversive documentation.
I have installed the MercurialEclipse plugin. I am finding it very hard to use.
I have been using the Mercurial support in NetBeans for a while now, there are many things I would like to be able to do in Eclipse if possible:
In NetBeans any changes to source code are highlighted in the line
number area. New code is green, modified code is blue, and removed
code is red.
Files in the project explorer appear as blue or green for modified
and new respectively.
In NetBeans I can right click any directory in the project explorer
and go to Mercurial->diff to get a visual diff for all files (in the
directory I clicked) that have changed since the last commit.
When I right click a directory in Eclipse I am given a compare with but
with only 1 option (each other) that is disabled.
Even worse, when I
right click an actual file I know has changed and go to compare with I am
given 3 options (local history, parent changeset, different
changeset). If I click parent changeset it does not give me a diff. I assume this is beacause its the first time the file has changed since 3 commits ago. Which doesn't make since, I just want to see what I have changed to review it before commiting. I would like this to show me the changes I have made since my last commit i.e. the changes I will be committing.
Please note I am not trying to bash on Eclipse and I am not trying to Praise NetBeans. I am just wanting to know if there is a way to setup a workflow in Eclipse like I am used to in NetBeans.
Some of the things you are requesting are not specific to the VCS you are using, they are part of the Eclipse Team support, so they will work with any VCS system.
1) Showing the code changes: The closest Eclipse has to that is Team -> Show Annotations, but I don't think this will show the added/changed/deleted lines from the current version. I would file an enhancement request to Eclipse about this.
2) Eclipse shows different icons for added and changed files. You should see a blue + for an added file and a brown * for a changed file.
3) To easily get a diff from what's committed, you can do Team -> Synchronize. This brings up the Synchronize View. Another way is you can do a Team -> Commit at any level and then in the listing of the files, double-click the file which will bring up the comparison between the files (that will show one file at a time). Another thing you can do is select Compare -> Another Revision... and select the desired revision in the dialog (this will show all enclosed files in a single compare editor). Finally, the Compare -> Parent Changeset on a specific file does shows the changes from the committed parent for me, even if it was not changed in the most recent revision. It's possible you have encountered a bug in Mercurial Eclipse.
Be sure you are using the latest version of Eclispe and also Mercurial Eclipse. Mercurial Eclipse is pretty active and they are adding and fixing things all the time. I tested this on Eclipse 3.7.1 with Mercurial Ecipse 1.9.1.
This is an older question, but i had the same problem, and found this info useful.
I'm transitioning from netbeans to eclipse. I'm no expert but:
For text highligting you can use the "quick diff"
a. Windows -> preferences -> General -> editors -> quickdiff
b. enabling quick diff with mercurial quickdiff seems to mimic netbeans mostly.
For diff's of a changeset of files. I think you need to use the Team Syncroniztion perspective as is mentioned before. Its actually pretty slick once you get used to it.
It finally started to annoy me enough to ask this question: how do I do a basic diff between two revisions of a file in CVS? Usually I want to compare the latest revision and some random old one. I'm using the Eclipse CVS plugin. When I use "compare with->Another branch or version..." from the selected file's (latest revision from HEAD or another branch) context menu, I get a list of branches, tags and dates but not revisions. Usually I have just created a date which I know is far enough in the past so I can compare the needed revisions but I thought that there must be a better way.
The answer is to show the file's history using context menu->Team->Show history, then choose two revisions and context menu for the selection->compare with each other.
There seems to be two main ways:
context menu->Team->Show history
which shows a linear history and you can select and compare between them, however it can be very bloated and hard to read when your project has lots of branches / tags. Personally i have found it less useful than:
context menu->Team->Show Commit history
Which seems to show the history of what has been committed to the specific branch/tag you are on. You can do it per file or per folder. The output is very similar but i find it clearer. You can click on a commit date and it will show you all the files (that you are interested in) that were committed on that date.
If you double click the file, it will then bring up another menu so that you can compare it with another file in the commit history
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(i find if you double click the "other" file, it doesn't do anything, you need to click "OK" in the dialogue, which seems silly to me. This might be effected by the fact I have the beyond compare 3 plug in, im not sure if it behaves the same without it)
EDIT
There is also a little button in the top right of the commit history window that allows you to switch to history view (but i always find it easy to read than the normal history view if i do it this way round)
Both should show you the comment added when committed and you should try and read about the differences between the but personally I haven't and its only form personal experience that i prefer commit history.
I apologize for not giving formal descriptions of each, this is purely from my personal experience of using them, i have not actually researched them both yet myself...