2020-09-01 - Initiative-17 - Norman Merril

Date

01 Sep 2020

Attendees

• @a user
• Norman Merrill

Agenda/Notes

• He is using a version of Eclipse called Kepler. This is from 2013.  It did not have eGit installed.
• When I suggested he update to a newer version, he said this is the version certified for Birt development.
• His eclipse work location is h:\reporting\reports\active
• We did find eGit was available as an add-in so we installed that version into Eclipse
• The version of eGit is slightly different then what is built into the eclipse oxegen 3.a version.  (2018!)
  • When I choose Create a new repository i have fields "Repository Directory" - It gave me a warning that files exist in the directory I chose. I am using git integration for Eclipse 5.8.1.20200714144...
  • When Norman chose to Create a new Repository it prompted "Name" and "Directory" - it would not allow him to create a repository in a directory that already had files. The work around was we created a fake repository location, and then moved it to the proper location. 3.0.3.2013, 2.02.2014
• git | Fetch from upstream - worked ok for Norman - it downloaded a set and the branches / remote tracking folder showed those versions.

Eyebrow raisers

• Development from a network drive?
• The age of Eclipse Kepler - 2013

Issues

• double click origin/develop does not work - it appears to lock up
• Middle August - Norm rearranged some files, thus the directory on his computer is different then BB. He made a backup just in case.

Things to try regarding speed

• remove the .gitignore file
• change windows cache limit and database from 10m to 100m
• do a git status 
• Birt  suggests you start eclipse with -clean

Notes

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28852521/egit-making-luna-very-slow-performance-issues - gives setup parameter settings.
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/316265/how-can-you-speed-up-eclipse - General tips for getting the best performance out of Eclipse. Has notes starting in 2009, as recent as June 2020.
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=456996 - lots of text. suggests .gitconfig might be a bottle neck if running over a network.
• http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/7-tips-to-speed-up-eclipse/ - advise for speeding up eclipse - tip 6 suggests using GIT CLI
• https://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/Git_For_Eclipse_Users - Git documentation
• Birt  - https://www.eclipse.org/birt/documentation/install.php - Birt discussions

 
Action items

• For Birt - and the current version of maxiom 7.6.0.10 - which version of Eclipse should we use.