Re: Using git with Eclipse

From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 15:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20071211101449.uqnyht2e8kcc00ww@intranet.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To: <475E265D.5090106@saville.com>

Quoting Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>:

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> Shawn,
> I added .metadata to exclude then used git rm to remove
> .metadata from the repository. I then cloned that
> repository to see how Eclipse would work. (As part of  my
> workflow I use git as a backup so I wanted to see what would
> happen when I "restored".)

One way to deal with this might be (after excluding it from the workspace repository) creating a sub-repository under .metadata, and use that one for your local backup.

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> As I'm sure you know with the metadata gone my existing projects
> in the Ui were gone and they have to be recreated as well as
> some Eclipse and plugin specific configuration.
> I understand you and others are working on an Eclipse plugin
> for git, will it also ignore . metadata?
>
> Do you need any testing done or is it too early? I'd be glad to
> test if you feel its solid enough that I won't lose data or if it
> uses a separate different repo then I could use both.

Egit is an Eclipse plugin, so you can always test it in an isolated "sandbox" workspace.

Cheers.

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Jing Xue