Question

I have local git repo, which i’d like to add to my projects as a GIT PHP Project.

My workspace is at C:\www and repo is at C:\www\citest which is a existing git repo.

Now when i try to create project from git like so

Project Name: citest
Location: C:\www
URI: file:///C:\www\citest

then i get following error:

C:\www\citest overlaps the location of another project: 'citest'

But C:\www\citest is not zend porject. It is olny a git repo.

So far i’ve tried File > Import, with no results.

Then i tried to put citest/ folder outside from my workspace, initialized new git project, deleted project from zend, copied citest/ folder back to www/ and tried to import existing project. It worked, but it didn’t have git functionality.

How can i create git project from existing git local repo so it the folder ends up in my workspace C:\www ?

Answer 1

I would rather keep the git repo well separated from the http workspace in term of eclipse project.

You can manage your git repo as a php project, and add a clone of that repo in your c:\www workspace.

Then a post-commit hook (in the git repo managed by Eclipse) can checkout automatically any commit you would do in your Eclipse project (checkout in the git repo in your c:\www workspace).
See for instance “Simple git post-commit hook to copy committed files to a certain folder“.