Re: [egit-dev] stream push messages to EGit console?

[Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:34 PM, André Dietisheim <adietish@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all

In https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=399776 there's a suggestion to provide an EGit console to show push messages instead of showing the results in a dialog. The suggestion is to provide something similar like the svn console show here: http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/documentation/images/svn_console.png
IMHO this is a nice idea (and we do that in OpenShift tooling). Nevertheless I'd like to start discussing how we'd present the info where we currently show the commits that were pushed (which also shows that some new branch was created). A simple text based stacked view seems not good enough. Any takes?

- I think the console should be backed by a log file

- maybe markdown or json ?

- we need a way to render that nicely in a console

- some text (e.g. commitID, branch, repository etc.) could be rendered as hyperlinks which could navigate to the corresponding object in the most appropriate EGit view

- large content in that console shouldn't eat a lot of heap so something like a treeview is maybe too expensive ?

- appending new entries should be cheap

--

Matthias