Eclipse Git Synchronize does not display changes - eclipse

No matter what I do, Eclipse (EGit) doesn't display the changes. I've searched a lot for this issue, but cannot solve it. A friend of mine has the same issue. In the past everything worked fine, but from one day to the other the issue occured.
When I hit Team > Synchronize Workspace, only the dialog "Synchronizing Git: No changes found." appears. When I choose Team > Advanced > Synchronize, the same happens.
I also installed a new Eclipse (with a fresh Windows) and issue was still there. With my Ubuntu notebook everything is fine.
Does anybody have the same issue? Is there a solution? I also tried to install the plugins mentioned in this answer, but it didn't work for me.
Update
Eclipse also displays incoming changes (after fetching from upstream) and the changed files (with an arrow), but the synchronize view still doesn't show the changes.
Update 2 I've tested a project from Github and there everything works as apected. What could be the difference between these two projects? I've checked the repository settings and they are equal. Could the authentication cause the issues? Like I've said, the project works fine on my Ubuntu machine.

I've tried the new EGit, re-cloning the project and nothing worked except this:
In the Synchronize view, click on the dropdown arrow next to Synchronize button, then select "Synchronize...".
In the dialog that appears choose Git, press Next.
Then the crucial part - select destination to be HEAD for your repository and check "Include local uncommitted changes in comparison".
Click Finish.

I used to have the same problem but upgrading to EGit 2.2 seems to have taken care of it. Things are now consistent between "git status" at command line and "Team / Synchronize Workspace" in Eclipse.
You can get EGit from here or you can add the update site http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-2.2 to Eclipse.
Latest Egit Update Site:
http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates

Before you can synchronize your workspace, you need to do a "fetch" from the remote repository (Team -> Fetch from Upstream) to get all the incoming changes into your local repository. Afterwards you can synchronize them.
If you don't want to make two clicks for synchronizing, you can enable "Always launch fetch before synchronisation" in Preferences -> Team -> Git -> Synchronize.

Staged ChangesThis has worked for me :
Whenever you made any changes. Right click on your Project name then Go to Team and click on "Add to Index". Now again Right click on your Project Name then Go to Team and click on "Commit". Now You will see that Git Staging console has been opened and the changes you have made are started displaying in Staged Changes box.

We were strugeling with the same problem. It turned out that we had to remove all options in Git->Synchronize preferences.
We are using Eclipse Juno and Kepler. Removing the options solved the problem for both.

If it helps anyone, I ran into the same problem.
During synchronization, in repository selection, the option Include local uncommitted changes in comparison is not checked and shows No changes found in the Synchronize view. Synchronizing with that option checked, shown the changes.
Eclipse Version: Luna Service Release 1 (4.4.1) - MacOS

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Reconnecting a project to SVN in Eclipse

I have a project that has been versioned by SVN for months, but now all of a sudden it seems that Eclipse does not recognize the project as being under version control. In the team menu, I only have Apply Patch... and Share Project...
I tried Share Project as suggested elsewhere, but Eclipse doesn't recognize the project as being under version control.
All the svn dirs exist.
Interestingly, I tried sharing the project to a different repository and I got an error saying that the project was already a working copy for another URL.
Any ideas?
There are a few things that you can try.
If the project is in synch with SVN, probably the easiest way is to delete it and check it out anew.
Otherwise, you can try to delete the project from your workspace (not from disk!) and to re-import it into the workspace.
If that does not work, you can try to use the SVN command line tools, e.g. svn commit, to synchronize your local project with the SVN repository (and check it out anew using Eclipse).
In case the SVN command line tools do not work, there might to be an actual problem with the SVN files. In this case, you could back up your project (with unsynched changes), check out the project from SVN, and use an offline-diff-tool such as diff or meld to carry the changes over to the newly checked-out project.
Try following: Rigth click -> Team->'share projectS' (plural, in singular does not work) in your disconnected project
I cannot reproduce it now in my PC but there appears a option to reconnect to svn -or to connect using svn information that exists in project-. (Just do as you were going to put a new project in svn, it will see the svn info and will asks you to use it)
I hate that problems....
Team > Share project works fine. The disadvantage is SVN supports to share projects one by one rather than many projects at a time.
4 years too late, but for anyone who faces this problem :
If while disconnecting from SVN, the meta-data was erased :
Right click on the project ->
Team -> Share Project -> SVN ->
Use existing repository location -> Next ->
Browse to your project's trunk folder -> OK -> Next ->
Here you will get a commit comment box. Just press Finish ->
A warning sign is displayed in a popup window saying "The project xxx already exists in the repository and has some content. Do you wish to proceed?" ->
Click yes ->
A window will popup showing the progress of prepare commit ->
After completion you will get the actual commit window showing all the resources as modified ->
Click CANCEL here ->
It will connect your local project to SVN and also will not commit anything.
I had better luck with the singular version of 'share project'. Had to manually add 'trunk' to the suggested repository path.

Eclipse and EGit: How to easily review changes to ALL modified files before committing to *local* repository

I'm using Eclipse Indigo SR2 with the (built-in) EGit plugin v.1.3.0.201202151440-r and haven't been able to find any way to easily review all my changes before making a commit.
I used Eclipse with SVN for years, and this was always very easy to do. I would typically right-click on my project, select Team->Synchronize, double-click on the first changed file (in the Team Sync perspective), then hit Ctrl-. repeatedly to review all changes in one file, and then proceed to the next file, as I wrote a summary of my changes for the commit message.
But of course, git is very different from Subversion, and so my workflow must change. With EGit, "Team Sync" only appears to be useful for reviewing changes between my local files and the remote repository (i.e. before a push to the remote). I need a way to review changes since my last commit to my local repository. I generally don't even care to (re)review changes before a push to remote (and if I did, I'd prefer a simple equivalent of git log to see what commits I'm about to push).
If I right-click on my project and select Team->Commit, I am presented with a window that does almost everything I need to do (select files to stage, commit, write a commit message, amend a previous commit, etc.). What it doesn't allow me to do is quickly and easily review all my changes in a compare editor. I can't believe this capability doesn't exist! It seems I am required to double-click on each individual file, review the changes, close the compare editor, and double-click on the next file. That's ridiculous!
TL/DR - I am looking for a simple GUI equivalent (in Eclipse) to do what I am easily able to do from the command line using git vimdiff (where vimdiff is a git alias that uses vimdiff as the "difftool" to cycle through all modified files) followed by git commit (with perhaps a git add or two in between).
If no one has a good solution, I am curious about how others handle their commit workflow with EGit. I've been getting along fine committing from the command line (not that Eclipse is happy about that) but I can't believe that EGit is as near-useless as it seems to me. Perhaps my google-fu is not as strong as it once was?
Says here that you can see the diffs between the working tree and any given reference. Perhaps you should try out the latest version (Juno) of Eclipse/EGit and see if it's gotten any better?
Update: I've tried this out in the latest Eclipse, and as far as I can see it works fine. Here's how:
In the moment of writing this, Eclipse Juno 4.2 is the version you should go for. On the download page, you can pick between several packages according to your needs. The 'Eclipse IDE for Java Developers' comes bundled with EGit, but you can also install EGit into any distribution using the Eclipse Marketplace (under the Help menu).
Once you've imported your project into Eclipse, make sure the project is "shared":
Right-click project -> Team -> Share Project.. -> Git
Now do the following:
Switch to the Team Synchronizing Perspective.
Click the little synchronize button in the Synchronize View.
Choose Git
Pick a suitable branch to sync against, like refs/remotes/origin/master
Make sure to check the "Include local uncommitted changes in comparison" box
Click Finish
Now, change some files and watch them appear in the Synchronize View. Double-click the changed files to see the diff (like in the screenshot below).
Are you aware of the 'Git Staging' view. It keeps track of all the files that have changed and you can review the changes any time. (This can be a bit better than using the commit dialog)
An alternative is to commit all changes without reviewing, and then use the history view to compare two commits (Simply select the last top most commits, right click and select 'Compare with each other'). This way you do not have to keep double clicking individual files. If you need to change something you can always 'Amend' the last commit. (I usually follow this approach)
I am writing this as of Eclipse Oxygen, but it should apply to other versions as well.
Option 1 with team synchronizing view: right click the project > Compare with > Commit. You can choose your latest commit here, even if you haven't pushed it to repository.
Option 2 with diff view: If you want to see the "diff" version without committing, you can achieve this by right clicking your project > team > stashes > Stash Changes > check Include untracked files. This will save all of your changes to a stash. Then you will right click project > team > stashes > select stash you saved. You click the green arrow at the top right to re-apply all of your changes you stashed back to your code. In the same stash window, you will see a "Diff" tab at the bottom right. Clicking on the diff tab will show your changes in the red/green highlighted diff style. I wish there was a way to generate a diff view without stashing, but this is the only work-around I have found.

Eclipse Egit Not Detecting Changed Files

I have been using Egit and Eclipse together for well over a year. I recently upgraded my computer and had to reinstall everything. Previously whenever I would make a change to a file it would immediately get picked up by Egit and show with the red highlight and star next to the file name in the project explorer.
I have everything back up and running exactly as it was, however whenever I make a change the change is not picked up by Egit. I have to perform a 'git status' in order for the files to show as ready to be staged in the file explorer. Am I doing something wrong to have Egit automatically detect changed files and has anyone else had this problem?
which version of EGit are you using
do you get the egit team menu if you right-click any resource in your git tracked project ?
if not then you need to do "Team > Share > Git", then check "Use or create repository in
parent folder of project". If you are using a very recent nightly build version this
will be checked automatically.
when you modify a file tracked by (e)git a text decorator ">" should
appear in front of the modified file
as soon as you stage the modified file (Team > Add) the decorator should show the star
also the staging view should always show the git status for all modified files
You need to "Add to index" all files again probably
Track Changes Click Team > Add on the project node. (This menu item
may read Add to Index on recent versions of Egit)
(From the EGit docs:)
What I've found is that you need to make sure that your git repositories are showing up in the Eclipse Git Repositories view.
In the repositories view, you click on the [very] little Git icon with a green + (plus) sign to Add and Existing Local Git Repository.
Browse to the directory that already has a .git subdir and click Finish. You should then see you local repo show up in that list.
Then you can right click on the repo while still in the repositories view and add pull down to Import Projects.
"Import existing projects" is selected. Click Next.
Your project should be checked off. Add it to a working set if necessary. Click Next (maybe Finish).
I had a similar issue where all my changes just disappeared. Somehow, Eclipse had unselected my Git repository. Once I selected it again, they all came back.
If you have already added your files to Stage then change the branch it will ask you to commit/stash/reset
I faced the same problem. From your git repository view: Right-click -> Show in git staging
For me I have clicked Team --> Advanced --> No Assume Unchanged, fixed the issue
I faced the same problem using eclipse version 2021.12. Whenever I made changes on file, the eclipse didn't detect it.
I solve it by using Intelij IDE.
i just faced this problem by now, and i resolved by clicking in button Refresh in Git Staging:

How to use MercurialEclipse?

I have been using the built in mercurial support in NetBeans for a while now and its great. I just recently installed MercurialEclipse from http://cbes.javaforge.com/update so I can start using Mercurial for my Flex projects as well.
I can't seem to figure out how to use it.
I watched the video, when I right click files in the Package Explorer and go to tools I only have 2 or 3 options: Apply Patch, Share Project [, Show Local History]
When I click show local history, it says:
No local history for selected resource.
My project is a repository and I have made some changes since the last commit. I would like to see a diff of those changes so I can review them before committing.
Is this possible?
You need to click "Share Project" and enable Mercurial support for this project.

Why is the merge tool disabled in Eclipse for a EGit-managed project?

As per the EGit User Guide, to use the merge tool, one should right-click on the resource with a merge conflict and then select Team > Merge Tool. However, when I do this, the Merge Tool option is greyed out. EGit is properly detecting the conflict and showing me both the icon and text label decorations for the file in conflict.
Any ideas?
It was disabled for me because I had some changes on my stash list.
$ git stash clear
fixed the problem for me.
It can depend on the version of EGit you are using, and on the operation that lead to the conflict.
See for instance bug 339092 which mention merge tool being not enabled in the case of a conflict after cherry-picking: only the just released EGit 0.12 would support that.
The only time (other than a bug) that the Merge Tool would be disabled is that when you are in any status other than the Conflicts one; i.e. you will only see that option enabled when the status is Conflicts. The status is shown next to the project name in most views, such as Project Explorer and Synchronize.
Make sure you have merged with desired branch, then if your merge results in conflicts, your project will enter Conflicts mode, and the Merge Tool will be enabled.
It seems to be a bug in EGit as VonC mentioned, but the fix is easy. I did it using reset branch option on the same menu that Cherry Pick option existed.
Note: git stash clear didn't help.
This happens if you tried to push changes to a remote and there were merges required from the remote. It fails with 'not FF' but also simultaneously detects the conflict. Don't ask me why it doesn't mark the whole project as conflicted at this point.
Open the Synchronize tab, right-click the project and select 'merge'. This immediately fails because of the conflicting file, and it switches on the conflict icon label for the project and enables the 'merge tool' option.
This is for EGit 4.0.3 in Eclipse Mars.
This also happens if you're in detached head state (in my case, I had checked out a remote branch and then forgotten).
Also, even after you've corrected the problem, you may have to select a different project and then reselect the one you actually want (just selecting in the package explorer view) in order for the menu to update.