How to synchronize Eclipse project workspace with Git-BitBucket?

Question

I am new to Eclipse as well as Git world. Following question may sound like really dumb thing to ask, but I have spent hours finding how to do it and found no way.

We have a Git remote repository that I have cloned using Eclipse's Git perspective. My team makes some changes to code and pushes them to remote repository. I am stuck with "getting latest" code in my local workspace.

Here is what I tried: Open Java EE perspective. Right click on my project -> Team -> Synchronize Workspace. This opens "Team Synchronizing" perspective. It shows me that there are some "incoming" files, but there is no option to "get" them. Only options I see are Merge, Overwrite, Commit. Well, none of them make sense to me.

In TFS world, I just select "get latest" and new versions replace old versions in local workspace. What am I missing?

Answer 1

The Synchronize View will only allow you to inspect the differences between the resources in the local workspace and a local or remote tracking branch.

It won't get the last commits.

For that, you need to pull new changes from the upstream branch

Right-click on a project in the Package Explorer and select Team > Pull or right-click on a repository in the Git Repositories view and select Pull to pull new changes from the upstream branch your local branch is tracking.
This also works if resources are selected from more than one repository.

See for instance "EGit Auto-Merge and Conflict Resolution "

To understand more about that workflow, look at GIT Illustrated Cheatsheet -- Working with remote repositories