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Git for Committers
Revision as of 14:08, 6 March 2009 by Overholt.redhat.com (Talk | contribs) (Linux Tools project has no git repo)
Contents
Background
- bug 257706 Host a git repository on Eclipse Foundation servers, support git as the repository of Eclipse projects
- bug 257706#c63 Mike M. on potential problems with git at the Foundation
- EGit/Proposal
Setting up git
- How to set up a local git repository as a committer
- How to import from Eclipse CVS
- http://manandbytes.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/how-to-import-eclipseorgs-cvs-into-git-with-git-cvsimport/
- Any additional notes to that?
- Important Commandline Commands to push etc
- Something along the lines of Ketan's blog for Mercurial
- Known Issues and Gotchas
- Initially pulling from CVS into a repo puts HEAVY load on the Eclipse CVS server ... better clone an existing git repo if available