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A Help Command for Gonsole

On January 25, 2016, Posted by , In Eclipse,Gonsole, By ,,, , With 8 Comments

We took the 4.2 release of JGit as an opportunity to not only include the new JGit version but also spend some time on Gonsole itself. The result are some bug fixes and smaller enhancements. Most notably there is now a help command. When entered as-is, a list of known…

Gonsole 1.2: Open Git Consoles from Everywhere

On December 7, 2015, Posted by , In Gonsole, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Gonsole 1.2: Open Git Consoles from Everywhere

We have added a little feature to the Git Console for the Eclipse IDE that may be helpful here and there. In the Show In menu (Alt+Shift+W) there is now an entry for the Git Console. The entry is available if a single a file, folder or project is selected…

Gonsole Requirement Upgrade to JRE 8

On October 8, 2015, Posted by , In Gonsole, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Gonsole Requirement Upgrade to JRE 8

Just a short notice for all users of gonsole. There has been a gonsole requirement upgrade since Rüdiger and I decided to move to Java 8 wherever possible. This means support of Eclipse IDE versions prior Luna (4.4) has been discontinued. This also affects the features of the Xiliary repository….

A Small Update for Gonsole

On January 12, 2015, Posted by , In Gonsole, By ,,, , With Comments Off on A Small Update for Gonsole

If you follow the respective channels you will certainly have read that recently a critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Git. The issue did not only affect Git itself but also all other Git implementations. Among them JGit, which Gonsole uses to actually execute the entered commands. Luckily, together…

Unleashing gonsole 1.0, a Git Console for Eclipse

On July 14, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse,Gonsole, By ,,, , With 8 Comments

Over the last few weeks, Frank and I had some spare time. As summer hadn’t yet arrived in Germany, we decided to spend that time coding… What came out is Gonsole, a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE which provides a Git Console. The features that we originally intended to implement…

gonsole weeks: a git console for eclipse

On July 9, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse,Gonsole, By ,,, , With 7 Comments

Even though Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. Because of that, Frank and I started to fill this gap a few weeks ago. If you are interested in what happened during this time you may want…

gonsole weeks: multiple console sessions

On July 2, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse,Gonsole, By ,,, , With 4 Comments

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. This gave Frank and me the idea, to start an open source project to provide a git console integration for the IDE. What happened so far during the gonsole…

gonsole weeks: oops – it’s a framework

On June 26, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse,Gonsole, By ,,, , With Comments Off on gonsole weeks: oops – it’s a framework

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. This gave Rüdiger and me the idea, to start an open source project to provide a git console integration for the IDE. What happened so far during the gonsole…

gonsole weeks: content assist for git commands

On June 18, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse,Gonsole, By ,,, , With Comments Off on gonsole weeks: content assist for git commands

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. This gave Frank and me the idea, to start an open source project to provide a git console integration for the IDE. What happened so far during the gonsole…

gonsole weeks: eclipse egit integration

On June 11, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse,Gonsole, By ,,, , With 5 Comments

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. This gave Rüdiger and me the idea, to start an open source project to provide a git console integration for the IDE. Rüdiger anounced the launch of this project…

gonsole weeks: git init gonsole

On June 3, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse,Gonsole, By ,,, , With 16 Comments

For many developers, Git has become the tool of choice when it comes to version control systems. Those that work in Eclipse are provided with a comprehensive Git tool integration. But it seems that for certain tasks the command line is favored. Some find it more convenient to type in…