Introduction to SubversiveSubversion support for Eclipse

Eclipse Summit Europe 2006

Michal Dobisek (michal.dobisek@polarion.com)

(Antonin Pokorny, antonin.pokorny@polarion.com)

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Subversive vs. Subversive

• Subversive as existing project Polarion.org Sponsored by Polarion Software

• Subversive as Eclipse Project Proposal

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Subversion (SVN)

• Version Control System

• Self claimed replacement of CVS

• Since 2002, now in version 1.4

• Wide acceptance in open source community… Apache Software Foundation Sourceforge Eclipse Foundation (in progress)

• … And Industry Support in other IDEs (IntelliJ Idea, JBuilder, …)

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Subversion in Eclipse

• No out of the box support

• Bug 37154 - [Team] Support for subversion 114 votes 3rd most demanded bug in Eclipse Bugzilla

• 3rd party support (both open-source): Subversive Subclipse

• Goal: SVN support in the standard Eclipse distribution (like CVS)

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Project Subversive

• Started in Q2 2005 as part of rich client for Polarion Server

• Moved into separate project (and made public): March 2006

• July 2006: Version 1.0.0 released

• Current status: 1.0.3 (Eclipse 3.1); 1.1.0.M5 (Eclipse 3.2)

• Main design objectives Code separation to different layers with different level of abstraction Strong extensibility and reuse of different layers Support of behavior customization by external plugins Optimization in specific use-cases Performance optimization Consistent and usable UI

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Subversive Features (1/2)

• Full Subversion integration into Eclipse Environment

• Browse Repository

• Checkout projects

• Share projects

• Modify, update, commit

• Most of Subversion 1.3 features (except of svn:externals) 1.4 features in progress

• Automated Error reporting

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Subversive Features (2/2)

• Interactive merge operation, similar to merge in Eclipse CVS plug-in

• Full projection of Eclipse refactoring operations into Subversion

• Support of recommended repository layout, including trunk, branches and tags layout

• Cross-project atomic commit

• Automatic resolving of conflicts

• Correct cancellation of operations with Subversion

• Recursive directory revision comparison

• Adding repository locations with same URL

• Data validation in forms

• Nice and usable interface

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Subversive Components

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Subversive Architecture

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Screenshots

• Repository Perspective Create Repository

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Screenshots

• Repository Perspective

• Repository Browsing

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Screenshots

• Repository Perspective Menu

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Screenshots

• Team Menu

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Screenshots

• Synchronize

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Subversive Users

• 1.0 Track (Eclipse 3.1)

• Version => Downloads

• 1.0.2 => 7000 (23.8.2006)

• 1.0.3 => 3200 (22.9.2006)

• Total, some 10 000+ users

• 1.1. Track (Eclipse 3.2)

• Version => Downloads

• 1.1.0.M4 => 2900 (15.9.2006)

• 1.1.0.M5 => 2600 (29.9.2006)

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Relationships to other Projects

• Buckminster (http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster) Integration by Thomas Spiessens

• FastTrack (http://polarion.org) Build on top of Subversive

• Mylar (http://www.eclipse.org/mylar) Subversive integrates with Mylar

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Subversive Achievements

• Eclipse Plugin Central Stable among TOP10 during last 3 months

• Freshmeat.net – 5th project in the Subversion category

• 5 community code contributors One joined the Eclipse Proposal

• 500+ forums and mailing list users, more than 1000 posts

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Plans

• Cooperation with Subclipse, gather developer community

• Subversion 1.4 support

• SVN Client layer improvements

• Extensibility (API) improvements

• Closer Mylar integration

• Feature improvements

• See the Project Proposal for more details http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/subversive/

• Goal: Subversion support in standard Eclipse distribution

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What next?

• Check Subversive Project Proposal

• http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/subversive/

• news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.technology.subversive

• Participate

• See current project home

• http://polarion.org/

• Try it yourself

• Thank you for the attention. Questions?