Tag Archives: Git

Git auto-completion for the bash shell

You can enable auto-completion for Git commands in the bash shell. For this copy the following file to your home directory under the name “.git-completion.bash”. git-completion.bash in the main Git repository. Afterwards add the following lines to your .bashrc file … Continue reading

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Stefan Lay joins the vogella trainer team

vogella is proud to announce that Stefan Lay joins us and enforces the trainer team of vogella. Stefan is initial committer in the Eclipse projects EGit and JGit since May 2009. He has more than ten years experience as a professional Java … Continue reading

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Avoiding Git Merge Commits with branch.branchname.rebase = true

If you have local changes in your Git repo and pull in new changes from your remote repository, Git will per default create a merge commit for the pulled changes. This can clutter your history with unnecessary commits. To rebase … Continue reading

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Mylyn Github Connector

Just in case you missed it, there is a prototype for a Mylyn and Github connector available. Please see https://github.com/blog/852-github-mylyn-connector-for-eclipse for the official announcement. Installing the connector is pretty straight forward you can directly install it from the Eclipse Marketplace … Continue reading

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Git Alias – git add -A and git commit in one command

In in 95% of my time I type “git add . -A” directly followed by “git commit -m “message” in the Git version control system. That is a lot of typing for a very common case. Fortunately git allows to … Continue reading

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The unnecessary complexity of Git

Git is one of the greatest distributed version control system and EGit will pave the road to success for Git in the Eclipse world. But some things make the usage of Git difficult for new starters. I would like to … Continue reading

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The JUG which lives – EGit presentation on 02.Sept. at the Majug

Since beginning of last year I participate more or less actively in the Java User Group Mannheim. Unfortunately the former main contact of the Java User Group Mannheim Alex Hanschke has moved out of the area. Benjamin Muskalla and myself … Continue reading

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Local Mylyn tasks distributed via git

I learned from Steffen Pingel and Ekkehard Gentz that Mylyn has the ability to save local tasks outside the workspace. This is hidden under advanced in the Preferences. This allows you to put your local tasks outside your workspace and … Continue reading

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Git – Cloning and pushing via https (Linux and Windows)

Unfortunately the Eclipse team provider EGit does currently not support to use HTTPS for cloning and pushing. Fortunately the Git command line supports this (under Linux without problems). If you are on Windows and if you are using msysGit then … Continue reading

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Eclipse e4 git mirror

After some time and effort mainly by Denis Roy and Bernhard Merkle the e4 git mirrors are working. You find the e4 repos listed Eclipes Git overview. EGit is also kind enough to be able to import all the projects … Continue reading

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