Re: [egit-dev] Google Summer of Code (GSOC) Participation

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

tisdagen den 9 mars 2010 19.53.24 skrev  Dariusz Luksza:
> On 03/09/2010 10:59 AM, Lay, Stefan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >>   >>  * add tagging support
> >>   >>  * add merging support
> >>   >>  * add stash support
> >>   >>  * add branch/tags comparing support
> >
> > I like this list. However, as Chris wrote, the merge is already in work.
> > We will also soon propose a patch to trigger merge from the UI.
> >
> > Tagging and stashing would be very useful.
> 
> To be honest I would prefer work for both projects (JGit and EGit)
> providing complete support for tagging and/or stashing (from low-level git
> integration to high-level user UI support).
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I understood JGit lacks of
> tagging/stashing support. Also I can't find support for both features in
> EGit UI. So both features feats my previous requirements ;)
> 
> Right now I'm not sure isn't it to ambitious, so I would prefer read
> some documentation (if it exists ;)) about how that two git actions
>  actually works and look into git sources (if its necessary ;)). Maybe you
>  can gave me some hints where to start, what to read etc. ?

Creating simple and annotated unsigned tags is no problem. JGit has code for 
that. Look for the Tag class and its presence in unit tests. Creating signed 
tags requires PGP support. The only option I know of is Bouncy Castle, which 
fortunately has a permissive license, so that should be relatively straight 
forward.

Creating a stash is also simple, but popping/applying needs the merge support
in general.

-- robin