Importing multiple maven projects from git into eclipse - eclipse

Question

I've got a git repository with two Maven projects "foo" and "bar". The structure of the cloned repo is as follows:
myrepo
.git
foo
pom.xml
bar
pom.xml
What I want
Two projects "foo" and "bar" in my workspace with maven nature and working Team menu.
I'm running Eclipse 3.7 with m2e 1.0.0.
I tried the following:
Import -> Check out maven projects from SCM
This clones the repo into a new folder in my workspace folder and imports the two projects, but without connection to git (Team menu is mostly empty).
Import -> Projects from Git
With this option I can only import the entire repo as a single general project (with working Team menu). If I then use "Import -> Existing maven projects", the projects foo and bar are imported but without working Team menu.
Is it possible at all to import multiple projects from a git repo with working Team menus?

Answer 1

As far as I know and are able to perform on my setup (Eclipse 3.7, Egit 1.0.0, m2e 1.0, m2e-egit 0.13), it is not possible in a single step.
The cleanest procedure that I know of is the following:
Clone your Git repository (preferably from Eclipse, otherwise you also need to add the repository to the Git Repositories view);
Import -> Check out existing Maven projects from the root folder of your cloned repo;
Select all the resulting Eclipse projects, and choose Team -> Share project;
Now select Git and check Use or create Repository in parent folder of project.
Long-winded? Sure. But cloning beforehand gives you control over the folder name you check out to, in contrast to Check out Maven projects from SCM which on my machine produces a "maven_{unix_timestamp}" like folder name.
I agree wholeheartedly with you that a quicker procedure should be available.

Answer 2

Here are the steps I used (using eclipse helios, egit and maven plugins)
From git repo perspective, clone your repo (I'm pulling in
git://git.springsource.org/spring-security/spring-security.git for
example)
Use "Import -> Projects from Git" to import as single
general project.
On this project use "Import -> Existing Maven
project" to import separate subprojects.
On each new project, go to "Team -> Share Project ->
Git".
If desired, remove the original project imported in step 2 above. Just remove from workspace, don't remove disk contents.

Answer 3

Create Clone of your Git repository. This can be done by choosing option of clone in'Git Repo Perspective' in eclipse. It will create a local repository in your system. I used bitbucket (GIT) to host my code. It will create a repository with the same name as you have given while creating the repository at your host. At this point of time an empty repository will be created since I have not put anything at host as of now.
Now copy your multimodule Maven project to the local repository which is created in step 1.
Go to eclipse, now click on import --> Projects from GIT -->Existing local Repository -->select your local repository --> import existing projects and we are done.
You will see '?' on your modules. Now select all the projects --> Team -->share projects-->Add index. You will see '+' sign. Now commit and push your changes.
In my case, I have not created the repository at host before hand. I created it through eclipse by pushing the code from my local to host. Vice versa can be done by cloning. If your code is already present at the host, cloning will fetch the code and save it in your local repository and similar steps can be executed to import project into eclipse workspace.