Show annotations not working

Question

I use Eclipse with egit plugin. When I click Team -> Show Annotations, it shows up nothing. But I could view annotations by going to the history and then right clicking on the desired change set.

Shouldn't the first way show annotations from the latest version of that file I am working on?

Answer 1

I found eclipse bug 394161 that says the show annotations functionality won't work unless you set your EGit preferences to ignore whitespace changes. You can do that by going to Window -> Preferences -> Team -> Git and checking the box that says "Ignore whitespace changes". That fixed the problem for me.

Answer 2

I was having the same problem and this worked for me (in two different computers):

1. Make sure annotations are well set up, for example, if you want to see errors on the vertical ruler, you must have that option activated. Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations > Errors > Show in > Vertical ruler

2. Make sure your project is marked as a PyDev project. Right-click on your project > PyDev > Set as PyDev Project (if you see Remove PyDev Project config it is already marked as one)

3. Lastly, make sure your source folder is correctly identified. Right-click on your source folder > PyDev > Set as source folder (add to PYTHONPATH)

In the last step, if you see Set as non-source folder (remove from PYTHONPATH) it is already marked as one and, in that case, this solution shouldn't work for you, but you can try to undo and redo steps 2 and 3.

I'm using Eclipse Kepler, PyDev 3.2 and EGit 3.2.