not able to import github project in eclipse

Question

just created project on github from my office and when then i came home and was trying to import the project on my home machine but I am not able to do it.

Following is the detail.

Both home and office machine has eclipse Juno and Egit plugin installed. I am able to do check-in from office. but at home I am not even able to import the project.

my workspace directory - c:\gaurang git local directory - d:\Gaurang\Webdriver-Data-Driven-Framework

Now if i choose "Import existing projects" it says No project found if i choose "Use the new Project Wizard" - it creates empty project if i choose "Import as general project" - it creates the project but not a java project so not able to compile or run.

My git repository - https://github.com/Gaurang033/Webdriver-Data-Driven-Framework.git

Answer 1

I struggled in a similar fashion when checking out https://github.com/angular/angular-seed.git

The problem was that I expected to happen in a single step. The Github project does not contain eclipse files, so of course you can not import existing projects - the other options should work, however and they don't

The solution for me was to:

1. Clone the github repository locally e.g. /home/name/git/angular-seed (import.../Projects from Git/URI)
2. Obtain a working copy as a plain project (import.../Projects from Git/local)

I think it's a bug

The result is that I have the cloned repository in /home/name/git/angular-seed and a skeleton project with a ".project" file that points to that place

Answer 2

You have to push your .project and .classpath files to the repository if you want to be able to import the project using the "Import existing projects" wizard. If those are not present, eclipse cannot detect an existing java project.