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Egit + Github question [message #851395]

Fri, 20 April 2012 19:50

Eclipse User

Hello,

I have a question on egit use. I would like to use github as an online backup for my projects. As far as I understand, I need to have a local directory for them, which means that the files of the project will be duplicated between my eclipse workspace and the local directory.

Is there a possibility to avoid that and to tell egit to use directly the workspaces files ?

thanks

PS: Is there a way to not publicly display my last name on this forum ?

[Updated on: Fri, 20 April 2012 20:00] by Moderator

Re: Egit + Github question [message #852907 is a reply to message #851395]

Sun, 22 April 2012 09:05

Eclipse User

The only "duplication" here is the one that's fundamental to Git: you have a repository in github, and you have a clone of that repository on your local machine. Your work always happen in the clone.

An Eclipse workspace is something else entirely. The function of a workspace is to remember the state of your work and your settings between sessions. It has to know where to find the files you're working with, but it doesn't care where they live. To work effectively in Eclipse it's important to keep this distinction in mind. Don't confuse the workspace directory, which is pure Eclipse metadata, and the files you're actually working with, in this case the ones in the local clone. These are two completely different things.

Re: Egit + Github question [message #853023 is a reply to message #852907]

Sun, 22 April 2012 12:07

Eclipse User

Thanks, I didn't notice that the files were moved form the workspace to the git directory.

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