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egit newbie: import existing git project&workspace [message #719255]

Fri, 26 August 2011 10:14

Victor Volle
Messages: 6
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi!

I am using Git for a while and now wanted to try out EGit.

I have a directory that is a Git workspace with a ".git" directory inside.
I now wanted to import that workspace into Eclipse and connect ("Team->Share") the project using the existing ".git" repository.

But I could not find a way to do that. It seems that I can only clone that ".git" again into a new Workspace+Repository. Am I doing something wrong?

All tutorials I could find describe how to clone from another repository (file system or GitHub) or to create a new repository.

Perhaps my expectations are wrong, but with SVN I can import an Eclipse project that I did checkout on the command line and later "connect" to the Subversion repository.

Thanks
Victor

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Re: egit newbie: import existing git project&workspace [message #719306 is a reply to message #719255]

Fri, 26 August 2011 12:34

R Shapiro
Messages: 307
Registered: June 2011

Senior Member

I don't know what you mean by a "Git Workspace", but if you have a directory which in turn contains a .git directory, then you have a Git repository. To work with one or more Eclipse projects in an existing Git repository you have a couple of options, both easy.

1) Run "File -> Import -> Git -> Projects from Git" and follow the instructions, or

2) In the Git Repositories view, click the toolbar item "Add an existing local Git repository to this view", and then once it's listed, run "Import projects..." from the right-click menu

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Re: egit newbie: import existing git project&workspace [message #719525 is a reply to message #719306]

Sat, 27 August 2011 12:03

Victor Volle
Messages: 6
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

ah, i found it: there is a checkbox i have misunderstood and/or overlooked: "Use or create Repository in parent folder of project".

For me the "parent folder of project" is not the folder which contains the ".project" file but the one above, because I think:

    parent (folder)
        project (folder)
            .project (file)

but obviously this is meant:

    parent (folder)
        .project (file)

just clicking the checkbox worked. I would expect, that the existing ".git" directory should be recognized by default

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