Bug 573222 - Provide an API to get access to git information
Summary: Provide an API to get access to git information
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 5.12   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 5.12   Edit
Assignee: Thomas Wolf CLA
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Blocks: 572802
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Reported: 2021-04-28 11:54 EDT by Thomas Wolf CLA
Modified: 2021-05-20 05:50 EDT (History)
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Description Thomas Wolf CLA 2021-04-28 11:54:01 EDT 
Currently some third-party bundles rely on EGit internals to find the repository or index state of git-managed resources.

This puts those third-party bundles at risk to break whenever we refactor something in internal classes, and puts us at risk to unsuspectingly break third-party bundles.

EGit should provide a simple basic public stable API such that third-party bundles can get the most important git-related information given an IResource or maybe other objects such as ITypedElement. Obvious candidates are the repository and the git path of the item (path of a file within the git repository), maybe even the index state (modified, staged, conflicting, and so on).
Comment 1 Thomas Wolf CLA 2021-04-28 11:54:57 EDT 
See the discussion in bug 572802.