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.

Source Repositories

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/*...

Committers will want to access the master repository via ssh

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

Everyone else will use either of the following URLs

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

Click here for further information on the Git repos available to CDT developers

Screencasts

Doug Schaefer has posted numerous screencasts on using git with Eclipse

• Using Git GUI with Eclipse Part I - Setting up the workspace [1]
  
• Using Git GUI with Eclipse Part II - Pushing changes to the server [2]
  
• Setting up SSH authorized keys in Eclipse [3]
• Creating and Applying Patches to CDT git repo [4]
• CDT Pushing Changes to Master

Setting up your workspace with the CDT Repo

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 in 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. It does not work directly yet, you need to ask unrestricted shell from admins first.
    • 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 or individual. Project filter does not seems to work. It maybe easier select all, then close projects you don't 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.