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Bug 345661

Summary:

API for storing task based SCM configuration in the Mylyn context

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Manuel Doninger <manuel.doninger>

Component:

Mylyn

Assignee:

Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED MOVED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

b.muskalla, mik.kersten, mn, sebastian.schmidt2, shawn.minto, steffen.pingel

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Bug Depends on:

355031, 358554

Bug Blocks:

309578

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Ability to store a file in the context zip	none

Description Manuel Doninger

2011-05-12 16:13:13 EDT

Build Identifier: 

According to my mail to the list and the answer of Steffen (http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/mylyn-dev/msg01249.html) i would request a new API to store task related SCM configuration in the Mylyn context.
For example store the SCM repositories and the branches, which are needed to work on a task, so that the branches can be automatically checked out on task activation. I did a first basic implementation for EGit, without storing the information in the context (http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,2609).

The information i would need at the moment in the context would be a unique identifier for the repository and the branchname (multiple entries for multiple repositories should be possible). 
I think, the identifier of the repository should be determined by the particular SCM plugins, it could be a name or a url of a remote repository (for EGit maybe the URL of the remote named origin, if it exists).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2011-05-12 17:21:55 EDT

Thanks for the feature request. This is an interesting idea and I think the context is a good place to track branch information.

Shawn, what are your thoughts on this, how we can best store information of that kind in the context? I have also added this as a discussion item for next weeks call: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Meetings. Manuel, please feel free to join if the time works for you.

Comment 2 Manuel Doninger

2011-05-20 06:07:51 EDT

After the meeting yesterday, i will try to sum up, what i understood (i didn't understand everything, because of bad acoustical quality and some accents).

- The way to store the branch and repository information would be to use the Team Provider API to generate a PSF
- That PSF would then be stored in the zip file beside the context xml

What need to be implemented?

- Of course the support for PSF in EGit (i will watch the actual review changeset and if necessary help to improve it)
- The ability to store the PSF in the zip
- And last the EGit-Mylyn-Plugin to call these APIs

Did i get that right? Please correct me, if i'm wrong or missed something.

Comment 3 Manuel Doninger

2011-06-02 12:08:11 EDT

Created attachment 197241 [details]
Ability to store a file in the context zip

Doesn't work yet - only for discussing in the Mylyn meeting.

Comment 4 Sebastian Schmidt

2012-07-05 08:15:52 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> According to my mail to the list and the answer of Steffen
> (http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/mylyn-dev/msg01249.html) i would request a
> new API to store task related SCM configuration in the Mylyn context.

You may have a look at the new ContextContributor-API which was merged yesterday. I think this might fit your needs as it allows to store additional files to the context zip file: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/6052/

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