CDT/git

To make it easier for adoptors and contributors to work with the CDT source, we moved to GIT source control system June 24th 2011. Old CVS repo is read only now.

This document will ultimately be the guide for using git and egit with CDT. It will be a work in progress until then.

James Blackburn has created a test repository on github and it has been mirrored back to our space on git.eclipse.org.

James is working on the conversion script. Once we're ready, we'll take the repo and bring it to Eclipse and make it our central repo that will feed the official builds. Conversion script is discussed here.

Setting up your workspace with the CDT Repo

CDT is now broken into two git repos. You can view repos at http://git.eclipse.org/c/. Core cdt org.eclipse.cdt.git, EDC repo is org.eclipse.cdt.edc.git. If you want to practice there are also test repos, test3/*...

Follow these instructions to get working with the CDT repo out on eclipse.org.

There is wiki for eclipse/git marriage here - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Git

Step one is for the main CDT repo.

• Eclipse Setup (tested with Indigo)
  • Eclipse Classic 3.7
  • Install Cdt on top on eclipse or install a separate copy of CDT 8.0 to establish an API baseline
  • In Preferences set API baseline (you can set it to its own installation if it has CDT it it)
  • Install Egit 1.0 (you can get it from Indigo update site). See docs http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide
  • (Optional if you using CDT remote launch) Install Remote System Explorer Run-time for build dependencies
• Check out build dependencies
  • (Optional if you using lp-parsers) from anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/tools, org.eclipse.orbit, checkout the 1.1 version of net.sourceforge.lpg.lpgjavaruntime
  • (Optional if you using test plugins) anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/eclipse, checkout the following
    • org.eclipse.test.performance
• Clone the repo. Doug's video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4rDgx6-B6Q
  • From the Git perspective, select clone repo action
    • Cut & Paste url below in the first page of wizard for cloning
      • URL for committers - ssh://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git
      • URL - git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git
    • Enter your committer credentials. Doug has video about setting up ssh keys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9xYP_NScQ&feature=related here
    • It will ask you what branches to import. If you only care about head select master, if you want to work with other branches select a corresponding branch, for example cdt_8_0.
    • Press Next. As location where files are store select a folder inside your workspaces, for example workspace/cdt-git
    • Press Finish (skip Gerrit page)
    • This should take about 3-5 minutes
  • From the repo, select Import Projects...
    • Select all the projects
    • You can select individual ones if you need
  • Let the build run
    • I find that I sometimes need to do a rebuild to ensure the API checkers run correctly.
• Another video http://www.youtube.com/user/cdtdoug#p/a/u/1/I5uq6dWdi0w

More for EDC soon.

And that's it. One way to test you have everything is to try and Export the master feature. That'll give you everything our official builds do.