Re: [Rails-devel] Git troubleshooting

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

On 21 July 2011 20:27, brett lentz <bre...@gm...> wrote:
> Yes. Unfortunately, this is one of the down sides to EGit. For better
> or worse, they decided to use a complete re-implementation of Git in
> Java (JGit) instead of just hooking into the pre-existing tools and
> libraries. It's not the choice I'd have made, but that's what they
> went with. I'm certain it'll get better over time. Judging by the
> mailing list, the project is under active development, so we should
> see fixes relatively soon. The project has already come a long way in
> the last year (when we opted for CVS->SVN instead of CVS->Git) and I'm
> confident these issues will be sorted relatively soon.

If you are using IDEA instead of Eclipse, that does use the standard
Git client.  I've managed to pull the source locally but still finding
time to go over the git documents and understand exactly what I need
to understand.  Thankfully I don't have commit rights, this is
probably for the best :)

Phil