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Existing project with multiple git repos [message #660273]

Thu, 17 March 2011 15:56

Armond Paiva

Messages: 3
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

Folks,

I have an existing eclipse project which contains multiple git repositories. The project was not created with any of the egit wizards and therefor has no "awareness" of the git repositories.

Is it possible to somehow 'enable' egit to begin managing these multiple repositories?

For clarification, here is a directory tree illustrating the scenario:

  <project-root>
           .project
           DIR_A
                      .git/
                      <files-managed-by-git-repo-A>
           DIR_B
                      .git/
                      <files-managed-by-git-repo-B>

[Updated on: Thu, 17 March 2011 15:57]

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Re: Existing project with multiple git repos [message #662712 is a reply to message #660273]

Thu, 31 March 2011 15:38

Stefan Lay

Messages: 342
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

"Armond" <armondpaiva@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:iltaig$grl$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Folks,
>
> I have an existing eclipse project which contains multiple git
> repositories. The project was not created with any of the egit wizards
> and therefor has no "awareness" of the git repositories.
>
> Is it possible to somehow 'enable' egit to begin managing these multiple
> repositories?
>

No, currently egit works only for projects which are contained in a git
repository, not the other way round. This seems to be a quite special
feature. You may open a bug for that.

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Re: Existing project with multiple git repos [message #675119 is a reply to message #662712]

Mon, 30 May 2011 11:08

Dmitry Smirnov

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Registered: July 2009

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>This seems to be a quite special feature

Well, nothing special: most of the projects I work with (QEMU, for example) does not have .project/.cproject under Git and I do not want to add it.
So, typically, I would prefer to create a project in workspace and add a folder that links to existing Git repo (whist lies out of workspace)

So, was this bug opened?

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Re: Existing project with multiple git repos [message #675371 is a reply to message #675119]

Tue, 31 May 2011 09:58

Matthias Sohn

Messages: 1268
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Instead you may consider to create .project files under the repositories and ignore them in your private repository specifc ignore file .git/info/exclude. See [1] for details.

[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html

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Re: Existing project with multiple git repos [message #675390 is a reply to message #675371]

Tue, 31 May 2011 11:15

Dmitry Smirnov

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Registered: July 2009

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I do have two more cases when I use such approach
1. Checking/Testing different versions of Eclipse (typically C/C++ code). Most of the time I work with some release but sometimes I wish to check development version

2. Working with Android code. The whole Android tree. I would like to escape from creating a lot of Eclipse projects manually. Note that if I use the same tree for C/C++ and Java, I need 2 projects (Java and C++). Thougth I never tryed to "Convert to C++ project" - I had noticed that in CDT 8.0 (Eclipse 3.6) this item has additional clarification ("add C++ nature"). Perhaps this also work in CDT 7 (Eclipse 3.7)

Perhaps, this feature (multple git repos) is not possible due to Eclipse Team API limitations?

Dmitry

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