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Creation of repositories in the Eclipse workspace is not recommended [message #1829310]

Wed, 01 July 2020 10:11

Vito De Tullio

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Registered: July 2020

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Hi.
I have some doubts on a warning appearing.
I have ecplise opened on a workspace on C:\Users\Me\workspace.
I create a new project in C:\Users\Me\workspace\MyProject
I then want to put it into version control.
I do right click on "MyProject" -> Team -> Share project... -> choose git -> select "Use or create repository in parent folder of project" -> select MyProject from the list.

What is see is in the attached "share-project.png" image.

what I don't understand is what is the meaning of the warning, and why does it appear.
what I want to obtain is this "tree"

workspace
    MyProject1
        .git
        <stuff>
    MyProject2
        .git
        <stuff>
   ...

but I don't understand if there is a problem

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Re: Creation of repositories in the Eclipse workspace is not recommended [message #1829333 is a reply to message #1829310]

Wed, 01 July 2020 14:11

Thomas Wolf

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Registered: August 2016

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The parent folder of the project would be "workspace". Having a git repo there is discouraged because it may include way more than you'd expect: also MyProject2 in your example, and even workspace-private data under workspace/.metadata.

I'd even say having git repositories physically anywhere under the Eclipse workspace directory is not the best setup. Personally I prefer to keep things completely separated: all my git repositories are under a "git" folder in my home directory, my Eclipse workspaces are elsewhere. Eclipse projects can be located physically outside the workspace directory. If you want that, the easy way to get that is to not use "Use or create repository in parent folder of project" but the "Create..." button.

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Re: Creation of repositories in the Eclipse workspace is not recommended [message #1829369 is a reply to message #1829333]

Thu, 02 July 2020 07:35

Vito De Tullio

Messages: 4
Registered: July 2020

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Thomas Wolf wrote on Wed, 01 July 2020 14:11

The parent folder of the project would be "workspace". Having a git repo there is discouraged because it may include way more than you'd expect: also MyProject2 in your example, and even workspace-private data under workspace/.metadata.

sorry but I don't understand, the git repo is in the directory workspace\MyProject1, what informations are you talking about? surely not the workspace\.metadata directory, nor the workspace\MyProject2

Thomas Wolf wrote on Wed, 01 July 2020 14:11

I'd even say having git repositories physically anywhere under the Eclipse workspace directory is not the best setup. Personally I prefer to keep things completely separated: all my git repositories are under a "git" folder in my home directory, my Eclipse workspaces are elsewhere.

ok, this is about personal preferences, but I disagree with you about it: the workspace directory "raison d'être" is to actually collect the projects!
Is you workspace directory empty?

Thomas Wolf wrote on Wed, 01 July 2020 14:11

Eclipse projects can be located physically outside the workspace directory. If you want that, the easy way to get that is to not use "Use or create repository in parent folder of project" but the "Create..." button.

Umm... I tried to follow your advice, but now I'm stuck with a different problem.
Maybe it's my eclipse setup (it's a very old version continually updated, so it may have accumulated some cruft), but if I do "team" -> "share project" -> "Git" and the click on the "Create..." button... nothing happens!

I will try later with a new ecplipse installation.

Could you be so kind to tell me what that button does?

Thanks

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