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Bug 356646

Summary:	Option to use command line git
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	John Crenshaw <johncrenshaw>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen, robin.rosenberg
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description John Crenshaw

2011-09-02 17:23:28 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110301-1815

JGit still isn't as mature as Git (ignoring options, interoperability problems, doesn't seem to handle Putty based keys, etc.)

It would be *really* nice to be able to configure EGit to use Git as the backend, rather than JGit. This would give users a workaround for issues like bug 335091 and bug 351723.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-09-02 21:54:20 EDT

Personally I find this unlikely to be addressed.

Comment 2 John Crenshaw

2011-09-03 08:15:19 EDT

Understood, I expected that this might be prohibitively difficult to accomplish, but after running into multiple bugs in just the first couple of days, almost all based on JGit limitations, I found myself desperate for any solution that uses the command line git as the backend. If it isn't possible fine, but I figured I'd ask.

Comment 3 Robin Rosenberg

2011-09-05 08:22:44 EDT

There are alternate attempts to build a Git plugin that use C Git.

I suggest you use the command line for those operations that we do not support
and write bug reports for specific features.

Comment 4 John Crenshaw

2011-09-05 10:23:09 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> There are alternate attempts to build a Git plugin that use C Git.

I looked and couldn't find any. Which projects are you aware of?

> I suggest you use the command line for those operations that we do not support

Sadly, these "operations" are core system wide behaviors like the merge.ff setting or commit hooks. Saying "use C Git for these operations" is almost like saying "don't use EGit for anything".

Comment 5 Remy Suen

2011-09-05 10:37:00 EDT

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > There are alternate attempts to build a Git plugin that use C Git.
> 
> I looked and couldn't find any. Which projects are you aware of?

Aptana ships with a Git plug-in that interfaces with the command line I believe.

> Sadly, these "operations" are core system wide behaviors like the merge.ff
> setting or commit hooks.

As you know there's already a bug open for the --no-ff case and I think there is one for commit hooks. If you find other things that are missing from JGit/EGit, please open a bug and let us know.