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:
Musings on Tests, Quality, Tools, Projects and more. By Steve Page