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Confused about Team Share with no former git repo [message #655072]

Fri, 18 February 2011 09:12

Kay Huber

Messages: 36
Registered: July 2009

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I'm experimenting a bit with egit and started trying some stuff according to http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide (excellent guide!).

Now I'm a bit puzzeled about the very basic "Create Repository" example (http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Create_Repository)

Creating HelloWorld project: Ok, Team/Share -> Git: so far so good. Since I have no former project shared with git - I'm suggested to "Create a repository" - where the default is my project path + "\.git".

Example:
Workspace: C:\dev\code\workspace_36\git_tests
Project: C:\dev\code\workspace_36\git_tests\HelloWorld (that's where it ends up by default)
Git Repo created: C:\dev\code\workspace_36\git_tests\HelloWorld\.git

At first sight, that's still ok. But once I'm adding a second project "HelloWorld2", I can't actually add it to the same repo, instead, I'm creating a second one within HelloWorld2 project. In the end I'll have a local git repo for each project I create.

Is that the intent / best practice?
How would I have to do it, if I want to start creating projects but share them in one local .git repo? Can I still have that repo in the workspace?

That would be something like:

Project A: C:\dev\code\workspace_36\git_tests\gitroot\HelloWorld
Project B: C:\dev\code\workspace_36\git_tests\gitroot\HelloWorld2
Git Repo created: C:\dev\code\workspace_36\git_tests\gitroot\.git

If this is the preferred approach, adding it to the guide would be very helpful!

Thanks for any comments.
Regards
Kay

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Re: Confused about Team Share with no former git repo [message #655111 is a reply to message #655072]

Fri, 18 February 2011 11:11

Manuel Doninger

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Registered: October 2010

Senior Member

Read http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Creating_a_Git_Repos itory_for_multiple_Projects

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Re: Confused about Team Share with no former git repo [message #655115 is a reply to message #655111]

Fri, 18 February 2011 11:49

Kay Huber

Messages: 36
Registered: July 2009

Member

Thanks a lot - must have missed that.

I'm still wondering though, whether it is a good idea at all to create a local git repository as described in the basic guide. Haven't seen many IT developments yet with only one project to be shared Wink