Checking out EGit source code with EGit
Git and EGit are getting popular. In case you want to start hacking on EGit this will give you some hints.
First install EGit following this guide EGit Tutorial.
First you need a few libraries from Orbit via cvs. The cvs location is “:pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org/cvsroot/tools”. You need:
- org.eclipse.orbit/com.jcraft.jsch
- org.eclipse.orbit/org.kohsuke.args4j
- org.eclipse.orbit/javax.servlet
See Libraries from Orbit for getting these libraries.
Select File -> Import -> Git -> Git Repository and paste the URL “git://egit.eclipse.org/jgit.git” into the first line.
Do the same with “git://egit.eclipse.org/egit.git”.
Currently there is a little bug in EGit, please see Bug Report. If you facing the problem that the Team operations are not available on your new project my EGit Tutorial describes what to do to make the Team operations available. This should be fixed very soon, path is already commited to the master branch.
You have now the source code in your workspace and can start hacking.
For more info please see the excellent EGit Contributor Guide.
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February 13th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Hi Lars,
I tried your suggestions, but I’m really getting stuck at trying to import Egit-Sources into my Workspace.
First of all, one should mention, that you are required to use Maven3 (in Alpha-Version!!) to enable
the Build of Egit (that sucks)… But I think, this is necessary to enable the P2-Enabled build..
When I try to import the sources I get some kind of “P2Utils cannot be resolved”.
Any Idea on that??
February 14th, 2010 at 4:34 am
@Martin Maven3 is not needed to check the source code. Eclipse will compile the source directly and you can test your changes in a new workbench.