Thanks for the reply Wayne, but to the best of my understanding,
there is no fixed (or even range-bound variable) format for remote
git repos. Hence short of actually parsing the url and seeing what
it returns, which is probably a bad idea, there is no other way of
pre-testing the url for remote or local. Please correct me if I'm
wrong.
If this is indeed the case, I would go back and suggest that we have
two menu entries like in the patch I submitted. In the patch, the
first entry - "Paste Local Repository Path" works whether or not the
user adds on the '.git' reference to the end of their path.
On 08/23/2011 01:15 PM, Wayne Beaton wrote:
From my own experience, attempting to paste a remote repository
seems like a normal enough thing to want to do.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=349453
IMHO making the paste smart enough to recognise if the pasted URL
is local or remote and then open the appropriate wizard seems like
the right thing to do.
Wayne
On 08/23/2011 11:05 AM, Abhishek Bhatnagar wrote:
Hi,
In the 'Git Repositories' View, when one right-clicks and goes
'Paste Repository Path', EGit expects a path to a local
repository; example, something with the format: /home/user/workspace/project/.git
I've encountered at least 5 people who have had trouble with
that because they understood 'Paste Repository Path' to say
either or both of the following things:
1. paste local repository, but of the format:
/home/user/workspace/project
[the change here being that the .git folder should be implied]
2. paste remote repository
I propose that we change the terminology and an additional
button to this menu.
1. We change 'Paste Repository Path' to say 'Paste Local
Repository Path', and also auto-imply the existence of a .git
folder.
2. We add a second menu option saying 'Clone Remote Repository'
which invokes the clone repository dialog.
These changes are submitted in a patch located here:
http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3760
Let me know what your opinions are
Thanks
Abhishek Bhatnagar
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