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 Test 3 Repo

CDT is now broken into two git repos for our current test. Follow these instructions to get working with the CDT test repo out on eclipse.org.

Basic docs for git http://wiki.eclipse.org/Git

Step one is for the main CDT repo.

• Eclipse Setup (tested with Indigo M7)
  • Eclipse SDK
  • Install Egit 1.0 http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide
  • Install Remote System Explorer Run-time for build dependencies
    • for CDT remote launch
• Check out build dependencies
  • from /cvsroot/tools, org.eclipse.orbit, checkout the 1.1 version of net.sourceforge.lpg.lpgjavaruntime
    • required by lrparser based plug-ins
  • from /cvsroot/eclipse, checkout the following required by the test plug-ins
    • org.eclipse.test.performance
• Clone the repo. Doug's video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4rDgx6-B6Q
  • From the Git perspective, clone the repo and place it some where useful
    • I usually put it inside my workspace
    • URL - git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/cdt/test3/org.eclipse.cdt.git
    • 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.