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user715374
user715374

Reputation: 139

EGit, selecting correct parameters for URI, Host, and Repository Path.

I am very new to GIT and am trying to check out some example projects from the eclipse.org git repositories. I just installed the EGit plugin and have reached a roadblock when trying to enter the correct parameters at the "Import Projects from Git" menu.

The location of the examples I wish to check out are located here.

http://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git/tree/dsf

However I am unsure how to create the correct URI, Host, and Repository Path from this url.

I would like to be able to explore the different repositories listed on that page (for example the org.eclipse.cdt.examples.dsf folder) and checkout those projects, however I just can't figure out what the correct git url for this would be.

I'm coming from SVN, so I am sure I got some terminology wrong. I have been following this tutorial for using git: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Cloning_Remote_Repositories

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1968

Answers (2)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324937

If you click on "Summary" in the page you mention (http://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git/tree/dsf), you will get a page (http://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git/) which displays, at the bottom (you need to scroll down), the clone addresses:

Clone

git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git
ssh://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git
http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git

You can use one of those addresses to clone from Egit: see "Cloning Remote Repositories" from the user manual.

Egit clone

Upvotes: 2

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 311703

This page contains documentation from the Eclipse project about cloning their git repositories. They show an explicit example for the org.eclipse.cdt.git repository. You can use either this:

git clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git

Or this:

git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git

I usually use git:// URLs when they're available. They used to be faster, but this may not be true anymore. Either should work just fine.

In general, it looks like repositories are available from git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/<PROJECT>/<REPO>, where it's up to you to correctly substitute <PROJECT> and <REPO>.

Upvotes: 1

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