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

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@linagora.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2009, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20091202142413.GB18165@linagora.com>
In-Reply-To: <200911252227.40235.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:27:39PM +0100, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> onsdag 25 november 2009 17:47:34 skrev  Yann Dirson:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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 ?
> 
> Both Egit and Jgit themselves have multiple projects in the same repo. 
> All projects must be located in the same directory structure.
> 
> repo/.git
>     |`--project1/.git
>     |`--project2
> 
> etc
> Other variations are possible.

You seem to talk about nested git repo here. Do you mean using submodules (I thought jgit did not support them yet) ? git-subtree ?

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> >
> > 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 ?
> 
> Share only tells Eclipse to attach EGit as the team provider, provided
> it is located in a git repo, or lets you create a repo if none exists.

Looks like there is a possibly-windows-specific issue here.

The test repo is a git repo with a couple of eclipse projects just beneath the top-level. It can be checked-out from both Ubuntu (Karmic) and Windows (Vista), and in both cases the projects can be attached to the team provider from the "import" wizard.

On an Ubuntu box, I could use "team/disconnect", and then "share" to attach to "../.git", it worked like a charm. On the windows box however, reconnecting was not possible: the "../.git" line is not selectable. Note that it does read "../.git" and not "..\.git".

Note that on my "mostly squeeze" Debian box, the import would succeed, but in that case none of the projects were attached to the team provider. If afterwards I try to connect it, it silently does nothing.

In that case it may be a known bug: I have a ~/.git dir that is also seen by jgit, and which I am also proposed in the "share" dialog. If I move it away, the request to attach is successful.

Best regards,

-- 
Yann