I am trying to push my eclipse maven project to my GitHub repository but the folder structure it is mapping is wrong.
My Maven Project is named DocOcr and i am trying to push it to DocOcr repository on GitHub using Egit in Eclipse. Although it is copying files but its creating one more folder under gitub DocOcr repo named DocOcr and copying all files under it.
Now my pom.xml and src are getting copied to GitHub as {myusername}/DocOcr/DocOcr
i want my pom.xml and src to get copied to {myusername}/DocOcr/.
Can someone please help ?
Double-check where your .git is located locally: it should be in the same folder as where your pom.xml is.
If it is not, backup that .git (in case you have done multiple commit), and see if you can initialize a new one where your pom.xml is, and import it: re-share your project as described in "How make Eclipse/EGit recognize existing repository information after update?".
Or, as described in "When I commit a project an extra project dir is created", create the Git repo with the option "Use or create repository in parent folder of project" enabled, at the very top of the "Configure Git Repository" dialog (Team -> Share Project... -> Git)
Which is exactly what I meant by "it should be in the same folder as where your pom.xml is."
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I'm having trouble using EGit - specifically when pulling.
Basically, I cloned a Git repository in Eclipse using "Clone a git repository and add repository to this view" in Git Repositories view in Eclipse.
After that, I imported the Git project and used the "import using existing Eclipse project tab".
However, this changes the names of the packages. Instead of having a src folder that contains all the packages ("Model", "Controller", "Player" etc), it changes all the names to the packages to "src.Model", "src.Player" etc.
This is what the remote repository looks like
And this is what happens when I import the git project:
Because the package names had changed, it would compile. So initially I changed the package names back to their original (src.Player -> Player). However, when I pull, it changes all the package names to start with src.
Is there any way I can fix this?
Thank you
Your project folder instead of src is configured by mistake as a source folder:
In Project > Properties: Java Build Path, in the tab Source remove the project folder and add the src folder instead.
Commit and push the file .classpath which stores this project-specific setting
I'm struggling to create a repository for my Maven project in Eclipse. Whatever I try it turns out like so:
\ProjectA
----\.git
----\ProjectA
--------\src
--------\pom.xml
While I'd like it to be like so:
\ProjectA
----\.git
----\src
----\pom.xml
Is there any way for it to not create a separate folder under the working tree?
I'm not sure if it is the only or the best way, but creating empty repo from git directly then moving files and reimporting in Eclipse did the trick.
In case anyone needs this later:
In folder you want your repo in:
git init
Copy your sources and pom.xml and other needed files there (I also recommend creating .gitignore file at this point), then:
git add --all
git commit --m "Initial commit msg"
Then open Eclipse, delete your project and reimport it as existing Maven project directly from your repo. In my case it already recognized repo as well.
From my understanding, you are trying to create a Git repository with a single Eclipse project, located at the root of the work directory.
open the EGit Repositories view and select the Create a new Repository action
enter the name of the directory in which the repository should be created and select Finish
make sure that auto-sharing projects is enabled (enabled by default, in doubt, see Preferences > Team > Git > Projects)
open the New Java Project and enter a project name
uncheck Use default workspace location and enter the exact same path as the repository work directory (see 2.)
go to the Package Explorer, select the new project, open the context menu and select Configure > Convert to Maven Project
The detour of creating a Java project first and then converting it into a Maven project seems necessary because the New Maven Project wizard apparently always adds the Group Id to the location path.
I'm trying to setup a git repository for my Eclipse project using EGit. However, I'm having trouble excluding the root/project directory from the repository. That being, my project has the structure:
ProjectDirectory
src
war
etc
I would like the repository to contain src, war, and etc, but not contain the parent directory ProjectDirectory. That's because if I want to clone a copy of the project in my workspace, ProjectDirectory2, the repository for the second project now will try to create a second root directory, ProjectDirectory. Unfortunately, when I try to add a repository for a project using EGit, I seem to only be able to use Team > Share Project on the project folder itself and I don't seem to see anyway to exclude the root directory in the repository from within Eclipse.
Any suggestions on how to skip the top directory in the repository using EGit? I'd prefer being able to do everything from within Eclipse, but if there isn't a way, is there a way to setup the repository this way outside of git, then still be able to use the git control regularly from within git on the repository skipping the top level directory? Thank you much.
Short answer is It is POSSIBLE with EGIT + M2E
trick is when doing share project -> in the configure git repo window
making sure use or create repository in parent folder of project is ticked
and making sure click create repository button
the main aim of this is to create the .git folder in you project root
not above your project root.
Here's my solution. Though not particularly elegant - the steps are all simple, it works, and can be done in about 10 minutes:
Clone the remote git repo into your local filesystem .. e.g.: ~/git/project_repo_root
Create your eclipse project as usual .. e.g.: ~/workspace/eclipse_project_root
Delete the project from eclipse (but not filesystem!)
Open file manager and move the eclipse project you just created from ~/workspace/ root into ~/git
mv ~/workspace/eclipse_project_root ~/git/
Move the .git/ folder from the repo folder to the eclipse project root folder:
mv ~/git/project_repo_root/.git ~/git/eclipse_project_root
Using a shell go into /eclipse_project_root/ and do the usual command line commands for all files you want in the repo:
git add <abc>; .. commit; .. push
Return to Eclipse and go to Git Perspective, and click "Add an existing local Git repo to this view". Select the git repo you are working with and the view should be updated with an entry for that repo once you say ok.
Once you see the local repo in your view, you can right click it and select Import Projects
Go back to your main development perspective (Java, etc) and you should see the project there with the Git markup on the root node in package explorer view.
~~~~~
At that point, you should see the eclipse project folder you had just moved (to ~/git in the examples described here)
I realize this is more verbose than I would like my answers to be, but for this particular challenge/solution .. I don't know of a more straightforward way to do it.
And as for the post above that describes you should always include the eclipse project root directory .. the reality is some projects/clients/etc require that the git repo not contain the root folder. So a solution like this is necessary sometimes
You should commit the project root for multiple reasons:
If you commit only sub directories of your project, you will miss files and folders which are hidden below the project root (e.g. the .settings directory and others). Those need to be committed also, otherwise your project is going to miss information and may not lead to the same results on another machine.
Your wish of trying to clone the same repository a second time in the same workspace sounds very much like you should re-read about git branches. In git, switching between branches is done after a blinking of the eye, so branches should be used when working on different features, versions or otherwise different editions of your project.
The Eclipse project name and the underlying folder name on disk do not need to be the same (watch out for the checkbox "use default location" when creating a new project). So you can checkout a second clone of the project with a different name.
If you later add more projects to your workspace (e.g. a test project), you cannot easily share them into the same git repository, as the content of those additional projects would mix up with the sub directories of the first project in the repository.
If you have maven project you would typical like to create a repository without the project folder created by egit. For my experience this is not possible with the egit plugin.
But it can be easily done from the git command line.
First move your existing eclipse/maven project from your eclipse workspace into your git folder (this is what also the egit plugin did):
mv myproject ~/git/
next create a new git repository
cd ~/git/myproject
git init
Now create a .gitignore file and place it into your new repository folder (~/git/myproject/.gitignore). This is an example for a .gitignore file:
# ignore all bin directories
# matches "bin" in any subfolder
bin/
# ignore all target directories
target/
# ignore all files ending with ~
*~
# ignore eclipse directories and project files
.settings/
.project
.classpath
Finally initalize your new repository with the content of your project
git add *
git commit -m "My initial commit message"
Thats it.
Now you can restart your eclipse and reimport the project from your new git repository.
Go into your eclipse egit repository view and coose 'import exisiting project'.
I've created a new empty git repository on BitBucket and now I want to link it to Eclipse.
I added the repo to the "Git Repositories" view and created a new project with the same name.
I select "Team -> Share Project" then commit and push upstream.
Now my repository has folder structure /my-long-project-name/My Long Project Name/
Is there any way to make the project folder the root of the git repository?
From the EGit Eclipse Wiki page:
It is probably not a good idea to make a project the root folder of your Repository
The reason is that you will never be able to add another project to this Repository, as the .project file will occupy the root folder; you could still add projects as sub-folders, but this kind of project nesting is known to cause lots of problems all over the place. In order to add another project, you would have to move the project to a sub-folder in the Repository and add the second project as another sub-folder before you could commit this change.
I know this is not a solution, but at least this gives a valid reason for having to endure the additional folder with the same name.
The (not recommended !) workaround
Create/modify the remote repository, then clone into a new local project:
If you haven't started developing yet or can afford to move the contents of the duplicate sub-folder (in your case, "My Long Project Name") to the root of the git repository, you can avoid ending up with twice the same folder, by going the other way around:
Move the files within the project to the root of the remote repository / Create the remote repository if this is a new project.
In the "Git Repositories" view in Eclipse, find the "Clone a Git repository and add the clone to this view". Follow the steps to clone your repository from your URI to a local folder.
In the same view, right-click the repository in the list and choose "Import Projects..."
If you have a .project file in the root folder, i.e. the files where already part of an Eclipse project, choose "Import existing projects" and choose the root folder, then watch Eclipse do its magic.
If this is a new project (or the files on the origin are not an eclipse project), choose "Import as general project", then modify the project type in Eclipse afterwards if you need a specific project type.
Disclaimer: I personally decided not to use this workaround and to stick with the EGit recommandations.
I am used to using Eclipse with SVN and CVS.
Now I want to use GIT via EGIT.
The goal is to have a local repository, not in the eclipse work-space, that my changes go into. That way, I can make changes, commit them, and have a repository with the changes that I can back up (at least, that's how it works in SVN).
Following the user's guide, I find it creates the repository within my Eclipse project in the workspace, which is recommended against. What am I missing?
Steps:
Create a Java project in Eclipse (Test)
On Project right click->Team->Share Project->Git
...Next - shows "Configure Git Repository" Panel
...the only repository it will let me create is inside the project.
Huh?
You can create multiple projects under one repo in EGit, see http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Creating_a_Git_Repository_for_multiple_Projects In that case, EGit will do it automatically.
You can also use the Git Repository view to create an empty git repo outside of the workspace. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Creating_a_Repository After that, you can create new java projects and specify the external git repo subdirectory as their location.
Since:
you can create a java project outside of the workspace
(see option "create project form existing source": the .project and .classpath will be created in the parent directory of the directory you will select as containing the sources)
Egit will create the .git where the .project and .classpath are created
you will have a repo outside of the Eclipse workspace.