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Best practices new branches, switching branches and projects that disappear? [message #783955]

Thu, 26 January 2012 20:34

Cameron Missing name

Messages: 6
Registered: November 2011

Junior Member

So picture a git environment where you have:
main branch->qa branch->dev branch->features

When a feature branch is merged down to the dev branch, continuous integration picks it up and deploys it to development.

So now I have a new feature I want to create:
1. Create new branch feature hello world
2. Branch switches automatically to the new branch "hello world"
3. I create a new project and create hello world
4. Commit changes to the branch
5. Switch back to the development branch, I am ready to merge this down.

---- Problem at this point -----
Since my project does not exist in the development branch it has been removed from eclipse as a project. What a bummer.

6. Merge the branch in.
7. Import the project and redeploy it to my local server.

What I am looking for is the best practice for my problem area.

Thoughts:
I could create the empty project in the development branch, then create my feature branch. That way the project would still exist when moving between branches.

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Re: Best practices new branches, switching branches and projects that disappear? [message #784204 is a reply to message #783955]

Fri, 27 January 2012 07:37

Matthias Sohn

Messages: 1072
Registered: July 2009

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Try a recent EGit nightly build, Kevin added a feature so that EGit remembers what projects where imported on branches and opens them again.

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Re: Best practices new branches, switching branches and projects that disappear? [message #784716 is a reply to message #784204]

Fri, 27 January 2012 22:48

Cameron Missing name

Messages: 6
Registered: November 2011

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That worked amazingly! The downside is it also has broken my ability to push changes to the remote server. Now I am stuck trying to figure out how to uninstall egit. I created a separate thread for this debacle.

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