I have created a gitlab repository and followed the installation instruction by the letter and it was successful (i think... i can browse the repository online) and now I want to connect the egit plugin from eclipse to this remote repository.
I was using SVN for quite some time and now we need to switch to git and I am confused. egit only gives me the option to create a local repository but I'm a bit lost on how to push/fetch code to my online repository.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated :)
Thanks!
With Gitlab (working with ssh urls), that means you have to register your public and private ssh key in Egit first before being able to clone it.
See EGit ssh configuration
Then you can clone it.
And yes, you need to clone the full repo locally to work on it, that is the difference between a:
CVCS (Centralized Version Control System) like SVN
DVCS: Distributed Version Control System.
See "Sell me Distributed revision control" and "Describe your workflow of using version control (VCS or DVCS)" for more.
First you need to clone the remote repository using git clone <repository>, then you can import it to eclipse using egit
Or
You can use the clone functionality provided by EGit to clone the remote repo to local system
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I am trying to add repository WSIG to Eclipse but i get this error unable to load default SVN client.
link WSIG repository in github
Yes as explained above you'll need a Eclipse Plugin to clone the git repository.
Or Install latest eclipse from here and use the already installed plugin.
But as it is mentioned it a GIT repo not SVN thus SVN plugin will not work.
First of all the repository you're trying to clone (in git terms) or checkout (in SVN) is a GIT repository. That means, it uses Git as its version control system.
Thus, you cannot use SVN plugin for that, for basic understanding you can go through here.
Also on github there are ample of ways to get hands-on on Git , which I'll recommend before you actually start working using Git.
Here is the link : https://try.github.io/
Now, for your question you have to do as below for importing in eclipse :
First see , whether you have EGit plugin already installed in your eclipse if not please get this installed, as :
Once thats setup, then Goto --> Import -> Git --> Projects from Git
Then Clone URI
Then add your project link which you see on git hub as :
now paste the URL here. Since we selected http while copying from Github then choose same here as below :
Now feed your user credential and you are all set.
If you still face any difficulty within above steps, there is good documentation with images here as well : https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseGit/article.html#github
Hope this helps.
Need small help related to the environment setup in a Git repository. Actually I created a Bitbucket account and I am trying to connect Eclipse and Git. But unfortunately I am not able to find Git in Windows. Could you please help me out on this?
I am using the Neon version of the Eclipse SDK.
I've never used a VCS before and I'm attempting to set one up now.
I'm doing some Game Development with Unity3d. At first I googled how to set up VCS for Unity; and I found this: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BurkayOzdemir/20130303/187697/Using_Unity3D_with_external_VCS_Mercurial__Bitbucket_step_to_step_guide.php
I followed it until it came time to clone the repository from within the hgTortoise workbench. When I hit the clone button after copying and pasting the URL to my repo from the BitBucket.org website I received an error: "Repository Git clone https:://username#bitbucket.org/username/projectName.git not found code: 255" and I do understand what an HTTP 404 error is.
Anyone who has used the internet knows it means the page could not be found.
I created this repo as private; is that why it could not find my repo?
Then I proceeded to follow the instructions at BitBucket's "BitBucket 101" help page. I installed Git, had already created a BitBucket account and repo, and the instructions which followed.
I stopped at the point where the help page said to enter some command line things in to Git Shell. I'm running Windows 8.1 and searches have shown me that particular program doesn't exist on this PC.
Am I doing this correctly? What am I doing wrong? All I need is to set up a VCS.
Git and Mercurial are 2 different distributed version control packages. They both use a command line interface. TortoiseHG (the package referred to in the step-by-step you linked to) is a GUI extension that's only used for Mercurial. (HG is the chemical symbol for Mercury, get it?!)
Bitbucket is an online repository that can host either Git or Mercurial repositories.
It looks like you created your repository on Bitbucket as a Git repo and not a Mercurial repo. Just delete the repo on Bitbucket (make sure you have a good copy of your source code) and recreate it as a Mercurial repo. Then work with TortoiseHG as instructed in the step-by-step.
The fact that it's a private repo doesn't matter. That just means it will only be visible to you (vs. everyone) and will require a password to push and pull changes via https or ssh.
Well, first of all, it seems that the tutorial that you seem to be using is based on using Mercurial instead of Git.
If you're comfortable with diving into the command line, you can download TortoiseHG, which is a Windows shell extension: http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/
However, there's nothing wrong with using SourceTree as well, which is a GUI-based interface for dealing with both Git and Mercurial repositories: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
FYI, if you downloaded Git for Windows, it should've provided you with a terminal called Git Bash that you can use for Git commands.
I am setting up a development environment in my home. I have installed a centos linux in a virtual machine. All files in /var/www/html are shared with samba.
I have access to these files in windows. I have installed git in centos. I created a git repository in a sub directory of /var/www/html.
I am using Eclipse in windows. Egit is installed in Eclipse. I tried to add repository in eclipse but when I do a commit in egit, "git status" in linux displays a list of modified files to commit. Also when I do a commit in linux, all files in egit will be marked az modified.
I don't know how to synchronize egit with git. What is the correct way to do this?
The easiest solution by far would be to use a cloud service such as GitHub (or BitBucket if you want free private repositories).
An example workflow is (on terminal, however your clients will have GUI options for this):
$ git remote add origin git#bitbucket.org:username/repository
$ git push origin master
The on your other client fetch the changes and merge them in through pull
$ git pull
Both sides will need to have the same remote repository - This way you can push - pull wherever you do the work and the code be the same. I use this setup for developing and deploying my web-apps.
This solution relies on you having an internet connection - if you dont want or dont have an internet connection at your disposal then have a look at this post:
gitosis vs gitolite?
Is there a plugin for Eclipse for git-svn? I'm looking for a way to handle the SVN repo with Git (for fast branch switching etc.)
It does not look like there is a Git plugin for Eclipse that supports git-svn yet.
EGit appears to be the most active and popular Git plugin for Eclipse at the moment and it does not support git-svn, but there isn't anything stopping you from using EGit with Eclipse and interacting with git-svn via command line (or via tortoise git for example).
Eclipse bug 315264 is the EGit bug for supporting git-svn, and it looks like something that the maintainers of EGit are willing implement, but they have other priorities atm. So make sure you vote for this bug if you want the feature.
EGit is the only Git plugin for Eclipse at the moment. It doesn't support git-svn. But there is a way to make EGit work with your Subversion repository and this approach works well with any other Git client.
SubGit is the server-side solution that enables Git access to your Subversion repositories as well as Subversion access to Git repositories. You may refer to SubGit documenation for more details, but in general they are quite straightforward:
$ subgit configure --layout auto $SVN_URL $GIT_REPO
# Adjust $GIT_REPO/subgit/config
# to specify your branches, tags and other settings
# Adjust $GIT_REPO/subgit/authors.txt
# to introduce svn author names to their git counterparts
# Adjust $GIT_REPO/subgit/passwd
# in case you have no SVN credentials cached on your machine
$ subgit install $GIT_REPO
$ ... translating ... a little git is gonna born right here ...
$ TRANSLATION SUCCESSFUL
After that:
You have Git repository at $GIT_REPO synchronized with SVN repository at $SVN_URL; this sync is reliably bi-directional, i.e. both SVN and Git repositories remain writable and SubGit takes care of changes from both sides.
SubGit has installed hooks into $GIT_REPO/hooks directory which are triggered on every git push to that repository.
SubGit polls SVN repository in order to fetch new revisions.
Please note that your teammates may use the same mirror for sending their changes to Subversion repository. In this case you should setup Git server, fortunately, SubGit supports virtually every Git server available at the moment:
Apache HTTP server with git-http-backend, GitLab, Gitosis, Gitolite: supported out of the box;
Atlassian Bitbucket Server: in this case you can use SVN Mirror add-on which is built on SubGit engine;
Gerrit: you'd need to install SubGit plugin for Gerrit in this case;
Disclaimer: I'm SubGit developer; SubGit is commercial software with free options for small teams, Open Source and Academic projects.
Although this question is 4 years old, I thought I would share my recently found workaround:
Open "External Tools Configurations" (right next to "Run
Configurations") and create a new "Program" configuration.
For the working directory, choose your project from the workspace.
Enter svn dcommit into the arguments textfield.
Duplicate the configuration and replace svn dcommit by svn rebase.
Now you can launch git svn dcommit and git svn rebase with two clicks.