Go back in time in the codebase and see the commits as an animated explanation of how the codebase was formed. a great way to get into a open source project?
For insance if you could play this inside Eclipse, so that the comments the time and the reason for the commit become clear.
Is there such a thing?
A static (i.e. non-animated) version of "going back in time" is EGit blame (annotations):
Selecting the Team > Show Annotations action on file selections will open the editor and display an annotation ruler with commit and author information for each line in a file.
Hovering over the ruler will display a pop-up showing the commit id, author, committer, and the commit message.
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I am using Eclipse (Photon 4.8.0) for a Git project. Before committing, I have been double clicking the files which appear in the unstaged changes section of the Git Staging View to remind myself of what I have changed before writing the commit message (I'm still new to Git so occasionally I will do several things before remembering that I have to commit my changes). However, double clicking on the file today merely opens the file, rather than opening the comparison view. I can still open the comparison view by right clicking the file and selecting Compare with Index but this takes more time and is frustrating.
As far as I know, I haven't changed any settings (not intentionally anyway). Can someone explain to me how to get back the behaviour I was seeing before please?
Make sure, in the Git Staging view toolbar the Compare Mode button is pressed.
See also EGit User Guide of the History view with the same icon.
i am using an eclipse based IDE and have a library with some files that i need to make additions/changes to. what is the best way to quickly see the all the modifications of all files in a list/tab in eclipse IDE?
i know there is the useful "#TODO" tag that shows all tasks in a nice view/tab. as im using this quite heavily, i would like to have a special view/tab that just shows the modifications and separates them from the todos.
EDIT:
thx for the suggestions and the local history tipp.
sorry for not making myself clearer. ive added a screenshot.
when i add "TODO" the tasks show up in the tab marked in red - i dont mind setting manually something (like a bookmark) as im not going to make a lot of changes, but ideally they show up like the tasks or another simple overview.
It's could depend of your version control system.
For each, eclipse purpose an associated plugin with a specific view.
Instead that, you could use the History view (Team/ Show local History after a right clic on a file).
Eclipse keeps a history of your changes for a limited number of days (configured in 'Preferences > General > Workspace > Local History'). You can right click on a file and choose 'Compare With > Local History' to see the changes between revisions.
To track all your changes you need to use one of the source control systems (such as SVN, GIT, ...). Eclipse has plugins to support these systems. Once you have installed one of these you can use the 'Team' menu to commit changes and look at the history.
found it!
by clicking "window" - "Show view" - "other" one needs to select the "bookmarks". the bookmarks then show up as a tab next to tasks.
by clicking the right small arrow the bookmark view menu pops up (similiar to the screenshot above with the task menu). the bookmark view can then be configured/filtered by clicking the "Configure contents..." menu link.
I am using Eclipse JUNO with the subclipse plugin.
Generally it works quite well. To commit files to the SVN repository you synchronize to check the changes you have made. Select the files you want to commit, add a comment and simply commit it.
Usually the selected files are then properly committed.
However, sometimes the selected files view in the commit window do not correspond to the actually selected files in the synchronize view. Instead it simply indicates all files in the project's file directory.
If you don't notice and commit you end up committing dozens of files/directories you do not want or need to commit.
I have tried all sorts of things to try and make it do that so that I know which chain of actions triggers it so I can avoid it but of course it never does it when you try.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing it or experienced the same? It is definitely not that the selected files are no longer selected. I could clearly see that selection still being active on the left hand side synchronization view but still the commit window was showing a full file selection.
Any help/suggestion much appreciated.
I finally figured it out. Whatever file selection you do is overridden by a folder selection at a higher level => if you accidentally mark the project's main folder all files are transferred.
In the end it is Very simple and logical. The only nuisance is that the specific files you selected at a lower level are highlighted in the commit window's file selection view as well so if you look at the view superficially you get the impression only your selected files will be committed.
Does anyone know UI tool (Eclipse plugin would be great, but any other, for Linux/Windows is acceptable) that allows to see difference of some part of code, but also allows switch between revisions quickly, e.g. by using slider.
I like the Team -> Show Annotation... functionality. It colors the left side of the editor and groups changed lines by color. When you hover over one section you get the commit details (revision/author/date/comment).
I've used SVN time lapse view with some success.
http://code.google.com/p/svn-time-lapse-view/
It would be nice if Tortoise SVN blame included this history slider feature.
Someone once showed me a cool IntelliJ Idea plugin that would show all the user commit information from CVS right there in the Java source editor.
It had a vertical bar on the right of the window and every code block changed/committed by a user was highlighted with different color and mouse-over would show the details about user and version etc.
I am craving for something similar in Eclipse.
Any pointers?
Are you looking for this?
Right-click on a file, choose "Team", "Show annotation" and you'll see who last edited which line of code.
Here is an illustration from the "What's New in Eclipse 3.2" article from onjava.com, which adds:
Hovering over a change block will show the developer name, date, and comments that were entered for that change. It will also highlight other sections of code in the rest of the file that were contributed in the same revision.
(source: onjava.com)