Re: [egit] Git repository with multiple eclipse projects ?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 26, 2009, 00:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20091126004817.GL11919@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091125164734.GF21347@linagora.com>

Yann Dirson <ydirson@linagora.com> wrote:

> I am investigating whether it is possible at all to have several
> eclipse projects in a single git repo, and have those projects
> correctly seen as managed by git.

As Robin said, it should work.  EGit and JGit both use this layout.

> When importing a git repo into eclipse, we get a list of projects to
> import, but that list is empty.  What is expected by egit to get this
> list filled ?

There should be .project files in the repository. I think we scan the entire checkout tree for .project files, but maybe we are doing something stupid and only looking at the top level directory of the checkout.

> It also does not look like it would be possible to use the "share"
> functionnality to setup such a repository from multiple projects (or
> from a project set), right ?

Nope, I don't think this is supported right now. You need to initialize the git repository by hand in the higher level directory that holds the projects.

-- 
Shawn.