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There are many git configuration parameters [1]. It's tedious to lookup possible git configuration parameters their supported values and corresponding documentation from the web. EGit should assist by providing key/value assistance and it should provide easy access to the corresponding documentation (maybe we find a way to hyperlink to the corresponding sections in [1], though I am not sure if IP rules would allow that). [1] http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html
Created attachment 277758 [details] key completion
Created attachment 277759 [details] value completion
I've created a little prototype of content assist for the configuration dialog with a selected set of only 4 keys. Something like that can be done easily due to our available content assist implementation. Does that fit your requirement? The hard part would be to actually provide the assistance for many (or even all) config values. I have absolutely no idea whether it is possible to somehow get a list of keys, values and descriptions semi-automatically from the git sources. And the question is also whether that would help the users, or if we should just provide a collection of "favorites of the egit developers", e.g. 20 to 30 entries maybe?
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/138004