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Actually, 2 tips about Git History view in Eclipse today: (1) Faster loading of History view in Eclipse Sometimes in Eclipse, viewing the History of a file, folder, repository or branch can take several seconds to load. Git promises faster access to the History of source changes because they are local, and this is generally true. But when there are thousands of files and many years of history, including occasional refactoring and restructuring, the History view can lose some of that speed. One simple setting change made our History views in Eclipse faster: In Eclipse, select Window -> Preferences. In the tree-view of categories, navigate to Team -> Git -> History Uncheck the preference for “Follow Renames” Click OK. This made a big speed improvement in our History view’s load time.  But it comes with a cost:

Let me give a shout-out to Abstrakti Software for a job well done and excellent customer service. My small team recently completed a project to move all of our development work from Visual Source Safe to Git source control management. Our code base was very large, with hundreds of thousands of source files across dozens of VSS projects spanning more than 17 years of history. Preserving the VSS History was one of the project's top priorities, and for that we looked into a handful of tools that were designed for just that purpose.