Eclipse and Git
So after having a bit of a head bashing session getting an eclipse project to work nicely with a git repository hosted on github, I thought I'd throw my approach up here to save others torture.
Eclipse git plugin
I'm using EGit.
I used Eclipse's Update Manager, adding http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates as the site for the plugin.
Eclipse Project
I went about setting up my project in eclipse as per usual, noting the location of my workspace.
Git Repo
I'm using ubuntu, so I installed the necessary git tools with the following command:
sudo apt-get install git-core
I then opened a terminal and cd'd to the location of my project in the eclipse workspace, noted above.
cd /home/dregin/workspace/Project-Name/
I then set up a .git repo following the steps provided by github, here.
git config --global user.name "My Name"
git config --global user.email email@address.com
NOTE: At this point the steps want you to create/move into a directory, but we're already in the directory we're going to use.
git init
git add .
git commit -m 'My first commit'
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/repository-name.git
push origin master
NOTE: If this isn't your first commit to the repository you plan on using you should merge with the remote repository as follows:
git fetch origin
git merge origin/master
push origin master
Making Eclipse Play With The New Repo
- In the package explorer, right-click on the package name.
- Team > Share Project.
- Choose "Git".
It should see the repository that you setup above.
- Click Finish.
That should be you done.
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