Question

I had installed Git, edited files with Notepad++ and used GitBash to commit my changes in some local repositories. Some of them are published to GitHub, some were cloned from project sites. But now, Notepad++ is not satisfying any more.

So, I’m trying to get Aptana to work. Of course, I want to use the existing git repositories as projects-to-be. But how do I do that? The git import wizard (File->Import->Git Repository as new Project) seems to clone the repo into a new project folder, which I don’t want.

Answer 1

You just need to create a new project within Aptana Studio, using the existing project folder. Let say you have a project that resides in project_folder.

1. If you are not sure about anything, backup your project first.
2. Go to File -> New -> Choose the type of project you want
3. On the pop
   up windows asking about the detail, point the Location to the
   exisiting project, in this case /some_path/project_folder
4. Create a new project will generates a .project file in your project folder, so you might want to put that into .gitignore so that it won’t get pushed to the central repo.