From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:14:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Using git with Eclipse
Message-ID: <20071211101449.uqnyht2e8kcc00ww@intranet.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To: <475E265D.5090106@saville.com>


Quoting Wink Saville <wink@saville.com>:

> 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.

> 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.
-- 
Jing Xue