when I create a new maven project in Eclipse (version 2022-03) I run into strange problems that I don't understand. Probably I am just too stupid;-)
Let's say I have a project called HelloWorld and I want to put it under version control in the directory d:/git/HelloWorld
When I do that in Eclipse (Team - Share project) I get a dialog (Configure git repository) and when I try to create a repository d:/git/HelloWorld, Eclipse shows me in the target location "d:/git/HelloWorld/HelloWorld" - but that's not what I want.
I'd like to have a separate repository for each project, but directly under the top level directory "d:/git".
I have found out that everything's ok, if I create the git repository in the eclipse workspace but that's not what I want either.
How can I achieve this? What am I missing here?
Strangely if I try to do the same thing in Intellij there's no problem at all
Surely I am doing something stupid - hopefully some of you can explain me what I am doing wrong here:
Thx a lot for your help,
Rudi
If you look at the git documentation here https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseGit/article.html#firstgit_with_eclipse
you'll find the missing part: you need to create the git repository before sharing. You can use the basic wizard to do 'create new git repository'.
Then when you are ready to share the project, your repository will already be in the selection list for you to pick.
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after a couple of hours trying and reading a number of tutorials, I can't fix the following problem: I have a remote server running a git repository. From eclipse (neon.2 and egit) I pushed several maven projects, each with its own pom.xml to this repository. When a friend of mine, who wants to co-develop tries to setup his environment, also using Eclipse Neon.2 and egit, we are not able to reproduce the setup in the Package Explorer. We get all the sources but in one project. The original maven projects are all nested in this one project. This wrong setup results in a couple of problems when trying to compile or run the projects.
We used File-> Import-> Git-> Projects from Git-> Clone URI. In Source Git Repository we pointed the Repository path to /home/git/workspace.git. In the Branch Selection dialog we can then only see the master. In the following Local Destination dialog we checked the Clone submodules checkbox. We played around with the following options to run wizards which were all failing, so we ended up with this one project option in the bottom of the three options in the dialog.
What is not happening, is the import projects dialog as explained here https://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide/Remote#Import_Projects
(but this seems to be a former version, since the Clone submodules checkbox is missing in the dialog before on this web page)
Can anybody please tell us how to extract the maven projects as top elements in eclipse, linked to the existing git repository, such that we can work as a team?
Should you need any additional information, please let me know.
Thank you in advance.
I would advise you to always put all Eclipse configuration files to the repository when creating projects. What you should do is add all necessary maven integration related files to the repository (.project, .classpath, .settings/*m2e.core.prefs or better yet entire .settings). If you have done so, you are fine. If not, add them and pull changes on your colleague's machine.
On target machine remove the project from workspace, but do not delete contents. In Eclipse Git repositories view select your repository and expand to see Working tree. Right click it and select Import projects. This will trigger the flow you pointed our at Eclipse wiki. From there it should be straightforward - Eclipse will try to detect projects and will import them, so that they have Maven nature and are managed by EGit.
If you don't want to or cannot share maven configuration in the repository, have a look at this answer which tries to describe how to achieve that without Eclipse configuration files.
EGit User Guide suggests making a Repository working directory to store your projects, so you can add multiple projects to one repository:
How do I do this? I tried Eclipse's Create New Folder -- it only creates subfolders for projects. I tried moving the projects into a directory I created and hitting refresh -- nothing happened, and when I closed Eclipse it lost track of the .project file. I tried creating a new working set, but it didn't seem like the same thing.
Is this even a good idea?
I do it like this:
Create a directory somewhere (e.g. ~/git/myrepo)
In the console/terminal: enter the directory you just created
Create the Git repository using git init
In Eclipse, right click on your project and select Team -> Share Project...
As repository, select ~/git/myrepo/.git
Working directory is ~/git/myrepo
Click Finish
You can also try and create the repository using the "Share" dialog as well. This is something I did not try.
I believe this screenshot comes from the Git Repositories View, not Package Explorer. So you can achieve this simply by creating your repository in a folder outside of your Eclipse workspace.
I have been working on a project, then i did:
share > team > git
It suddenly moved the project to another folder. Nevertheless I don't want it to be moved or create a repository on top of my eclipse projects because by experience I know mixing everything is a bad idea.
Am I am correct to say that I have to move the working directory to the Repository if i want to use Egit?
Thank you for your help
Current scenario :
In Eclipse when we create a project, say a PyDev project named ‘SimpleGit’, the folder structure created by eclipse will be like
EclipseWorkingDirectory/SimpleGit/src/
correct?
If we add this to git using Egit, by right clicking on the project folder SimpleGit then Team>Share, The folder structure in which repo is formed like this
Parent Folder/ SimpleGit/ .git
Parent Folder/ SimpleGit/SimpleGit/src/
And when we stage it to remote github everything will come under
Username/ SimpleGit / SimpleGit / src /
So when we look in GitHub in the root project folder (Username/ SimpleGit) we can’t see the source folder. It will be under another folder ‘SimpleGit’. How we can avoid this?
What I want is , I want to get my source forlder(src) listed under the Project Root directory, when staging from an already built project in eclipse using egit. How do I do this?
I want like this:
https://github.com/nicholasbishop/blender
Not like this:
https://github.com/afilash/SimpleGit
it cannot be done using eGit - it assumes the Eclipse project structure.
But it can be accomplished by using git itself. Just create a repository under SimpleGit folder executing 'git init'. From that point on you'd have to manage your git repository by either git itself (command line) or some other UI. SourceTree works really well for me.
It is a bit late, I know, but this method perfectly works and I hope it is useful for anyone who sees this post from now on.
The procedure is the following:
First step is creating a repository on Github (through github.com)
Move to Eclipse IDE (Git Repositories view) and click "Clone a Git Repository and add the clone to this view". Doing that the project will be somewhere located on the hard disk. Usually, it is stored in C:\Users\username\git\projectName but you are able to change it. This is our local repository.
Once done, press (in Eclipse IDE) File->Import->Projects from Git->Existing local repository(Select the one you cloned before)->Import using the new project wizard->Finish->Java->Java Project->Specify project name (just below the dialog box there is a checked checkbox that says use default location, uncheck it. Here is where you have to specify the directory you chose while cloning the repository previously).->Next->Finish
It should be enough for creating the right directory structure.
After spending a decade with SVN I've finally taken the plunge with Git. I have set up Git, Gitolite and GitLab on a server and have successfully added code to my local repository, committed, cloned repositories and pushed code back to repositories. So far, so good. Now enters EGit...
I have cloned a repository using the Git Repository Exploring view using the following syntax for the path:
ssh://dexter:vaultanalyser.git
(In GitLab, repositories are referred to as projects, so I assume that I am supposed to have one repository per Eclipse project? Rather than a SVN-style single parent repository that contains multiple projects?)
This imports the repository into:
/Users/mattpainter/git/vaultanalyser
I was expecting this step to automatically create an Eclipse project for me with all the source, but this isn't so. I tried fudging the target directory so it's in my workspace, but this isn't working either.
How do I get the cloned source available within Eclipse? This site implies that if you create a project with the same name as the repository, it all magically works, but this isn't the case (yes, I know the article is about Github, not GitLab, but I figured the two were close enough for the task at hand).
I've then tried creating a project in Eclipse and sharing it - but then the whole project appears as a sub-folder in the repository. If repositories are indeed analogous to projects, this isn't really what I want.
I've looked through other StackOverflow topics that look related, but I fear I'm still missing a key piece of understanding with how this is supposed to work and it's all looking remarkably convoluted thus far.
Help?
In GitLab, repositories are referred to as projects, so I assume that I am supposed to have one repository per Eclipse project?
Yes, but a GitLab "project" isn't necessarily an Eclipse one.
It doesn't have to follow an SVN structure, as illustrated in "Eclipse reference directory outside eclipse project directory but within repository".
All you need to do is to create an Eclipse project, specifying the source directory being not in the default path (Eclipse workspace), but wherever you cloned your repo (as described in "Getting started with Eclipse + EGit - confused").
That way, the eclipse project you just declared (and referenced in the Eclipse workspace) has its files (.project and .classpath) at the root of the Git repo.
And Egit can then manage that project just fine.
Or you can import it directly with Egit: "Eclipse + EGit: clone project into workspace".
As the OP nullpainter reports below:
The original issue was compounded by invalid permissions in the .git/objects folder on the server.
Running a chmod git:git -R * on the folder solved the issue
He details the right setup below.
To expand on #VonC's answer, the steps to get EGit and Eclipse to play nicely is:
Select 'Clone a Git repository' from EGit, accepting all defaults. This will create a folder in a git parent folder, somewhere outside your workspace.
Create a new Eclipse project. I'm using Java, but I assume there are similar steps for other languages. On the first dialog, untick 'Use default location' and instead select the repository folder created in step 1. Accept all defaults.
Select Team > Share Project... from your new project. Select Git, and tick the 'Use or create repository in parent folder of project'.
Now you can push your code and Eclipse dot files to your git repository from within Eclipse.
(My original issue was compounded by invalid permissions in the .git/objects folder on the server - running a chmod git:git -R * on the folder solved the issues)
I check it out with the command line - then build my projects on top of that. In fact, I end up doing most operations with command line git. EGit is useful for viewing the diffs but I find command line has more power and control. Git is mostly about giving devs lots of power and control.