Importing a Maven project into Eclipse from Git

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How can I get the effect of choosing to import from both Maven and Git and have Eclipse properly generate my project    To get my project into Eclipse I can choose File- import- maven and then I get all the Maven projects imported and can build fine  or I can choose File- import- git and make a new project that ignores the pom xml and does not generate the project properly    It seems I can do one or the other but not combine both so I get a correctly generated project

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Direct answer  Go to Files gt  gt Import gt  gt Git gt  gt Project From Git  you should have GIT installed on Eclips

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Step 1   Setting Up Eclipse  First of all you ll need to have a few Eclipse plug-ins installed  So use eclipse IDE software install feature in the help dropdown menu    Install new software  and add link to Available Software Site  then install it    GIT plugin  EGIT - http   download eclipse org egit updates Eclipse Maven plugin  M2Eclipse   - http   download eclipse org technology m2e releases Maven SCM Handler for EGit  m2e-egit      Install from the M2E Marketplace  Settings   Maven   Discovery   Open Catalog and search for   m2e-egit        Step 2   Clone the repository   Clone download  your Maven Projects from Git      Check out non-eclipse Maven Projects from Git  File   Import     Maven   Check out Maven Projects from SCM         Now add your git repository link to SCM URI field Then click next  amp  finish

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As of this  updated  writing  a working setup is the following    Eclipse 3 8  Eclipse Indigo update site  EGit 1 3 0  Eclipse Indigo update site  m2e 1 0 200  Eclipse Indigo update site  m2e-egit 0 14 0  m2e marketplace when adding a connector    Tested on Ubuntu Raring   You can certainly  Import  -   Maven  -   Check out Maven Projects from SCM   and this is the quickest way  However  such direct import currently does not give you control over the cloned repository folder name  You may be better off working from the  Git Repository  View and perform either a  Clone from a Git Repository and add the clone to this view   followed by an  Import Maven Projects  from such clone  the longest way would be to do your manual cloning and then  Add an existing local Git Repository to this view   followed again by an  Import Maven Projects   Either case you have full control on the cloned folder   A final comment on a side issue that made me cry in frustration  As far as I know  if the cloned repository lies on the root of your Eclipse workspace  and your Maven project file hierarchy has a POM on its root  then importing such root project will rename the cloned folder  with the template you chose  defaults to  artifactId    Without changing your project structure and without keeping files outside your workspace  you can easily work around this issue by cloning on a subsubfolder of the workspace folder

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You should note that putting generated metadata under version control  let it be git or any other scm   is not a very good idea if there are more than one developer working on the codebase  Two developers may have a totally different project or classpath setup  Just as a heads up in case you intends to share the code at some time

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After checking out my branch in Egit  I switched to the Java View  then used File-- Import  Git-- Projects from Git  then selected the top level maven directory   This was with Eclipse Kepler

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Can t you import it as a git project and then  if you have the m2eclipse installed  right click on the project in the Package Explorer   Maven   Enable Dependency Management

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I have been testing this out for my project     Eclispe Indigo  Help   Install New Software  Enable Install official Git plug-ins at  Eclipse Git Plugin     and install the lot   Enable the Maven EGit connector with these instructions How do you get git integration working with m2eclipse  Switch to the Git Repository perspective  Right click paste the project git url  The defaults should all work  You may want to change the install folder it guesses    Expand the cloned repository and right click on  Working Tree  and pick  Import Maven Projects       Switch to the Java perspective  Right click on the project and choose  Team   Share Project   Select  Git  and be sure to tick the box  Use or create repository in parent folder of project

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I have a maven project with three submodules that is managed in git   I set them up in eclipse as follows    I registered the git repository with eclipse using EGit I imported the projects as existing Maven Projects For each project  I went Team   Share Project

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Here s my workaround  this is a solution to these issues    You can t install m2e-egit  I get an error in Juno  Converting a general project  connected to your Git repository  to a Maven project isn t working for you  The Import Maven Projects step seems essential  Importing Maven Projects from your repository on the filesystem isn t showing the project connected to Git       Setup your Git repository in the Git Repository Exploring perspective   Switch to the Java perspective  Import   Existing Maven Projects Browse to your Git checkout in the filesystem  select the directory containing the pom xml file  Finish the import  you ll notice these projects aren t connected to Git   -  Delete these projects  but DO NOT DELETE FROM FILESYSTEM  We don t want our clone deleted  this task also leaves the  project file behind so that we can import in the next step   Go back to the Git Repository Exploring perspective   Right-click your repository  Import Projects    Select Import existing projects In the explorer below  browse to and select the directory containing the pom xml  and  project file    then click next  Continue through the wizard

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Eclipse Indigo   M2Eclipse 1 0 makes it very easy    If you don t already have the Git connector for M2Eclipse install it   M2Eclipse will help you along by prompting you on the Import menu      Select the  Import     context menu from the Package Explorer view Select  Check out Maven projects from SCM  option under the Maven category On the window that is presented choose the link  Find more SCM connectors in the m2e Marketplace Find connector for Git   install   restart   Note that in the search box you may have to enter  EGit  instead of  Git  to find the right connector   With that done  simply go to the EGit repository  bring up the context menu for the Working directory and select  Import Maven projects        Done

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Import without installing any additional connectors for Mylyn    Open Git Repositories view  Window- Show view- Git Repositories  Press Clone a Git Repository button and proceed with all steps In newly created repository expand Working Directory  right click on folder with your project and select Import Projects  Then either choose Import existing projects  or select Import as general project  If needed after importing right click on your project and select Configure- Convert to Maven Project  and Maven- Update Project

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I would prefer to import projects into Eclipse as maven projects rather than git project   Doing this will still allow the project contents to be recognized as git contents  You can continue to perform git operations from Eclipse  As you have mentioned the reverse is not true     The nature of a project in Eclipse is not based on the SCM which holds the project  but on the type of project - whether war or jar  etc  - which is automagically determined when the project is imported as maven project   I would be hesitant to check-in to SCM IDE-specific metadata   Doing so assumes a lot of things - all developers are using the same IDE or version of the IDE  perhaps same version of JDK JRE  that they continue to use the same version throughout the project lifecycle and so on

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I would perform a git clone via the command line  outside Eclipse  then use File -  Import    -  Existing Maven Projects    Your projects will be understood as using Git and Maven  It s the fastest and most reliable way to import IMO

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Instead of constantly generating project metadata via import- maven command  you can generate your project metadata once and the place it in your git repository along with the rest of your source code  After than  using import- git command will import a proper maven-enabled project  assuming you have maven tools installed   Make sure to place into the source control system all files in project dir that start with     such as  classpath and  project along with the entire contents of the  settings directory

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