How to link a project in Eclipse with the Git repository I imported from

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I've googled all day and there's so many Git questions, it's hard to find anything about my actual question, which is this.

I have a local Git repository set up. I can pull a previously committed project into Eclipse (via "import…"), but when I do, the project has no association with that Git repository. The Eclipse project is actually a link to the Git work area, so I'm working with the correct files, but since Eclipse is unaware of the link, I can't use any of the team features on that project.

I realize I can then team->share the project and it will copy it somewhere else, but I don't see the point there (and it will probably break the original repository as Eclipse will move the files from the old location to the new).

In CVS and SVN you "checkout" and you get a copy and the association is automatically made with the repository you got the file from. I'm not seeing how to do that with Git in Eclipse.

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After much putzing around, I finally figured it out. Once you import the project from the git repository into the eclipse workspace, you then team->share it back to the same repository and it will attach it. Not sure why this is a two step process but that's how I made it go. Maybe there's a simpler way, but I haven't found it yet.

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If you just remove the files from the most recent commit and start using git-annex now, it will work, but your existing git repository will not get any smaller. This is because your history still contains all the big files checked into Git.

You might be able to use git-filter-branch to rewrite your commits to remove the big files and annex them, as if they had been there all along. That command would probably look something like the following. I haven't tested this myself since I don't have git-annex installed, so you should clone your repo and test it there first!

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'find . -size +5M -type f -not -ipath \*.git/\* -print0 | xargs -0 git rm --cached;find . -size +5M -type f -not -ipath \*.git/\* -print0 | xargs -0 git annex add' HEAD

Step by step, what that hopefully does is:

git filter-branch --tree-filter '<commands>' HEAD

Rewrite trees for all commits reachable from HEAD.
find . -size +5M -type f -not -ipath \*.git/\* -print0 | xargs -0 git rm --cached;

For each commit, find all files larger than 5MB in the repo (minus the .git directory) and remove them from the index.
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Checkout Git files to a location outside the repository

Yes, this is certainly possible.

Lets say I have a bare repository named /srv/production.git on the destination system/server.

On the destination system I can use the command cd /srv/production.git; GIT_WORK_TREE=/srv/production-www/ git checkout -f

If I am in a non-bare repository the command is slightly different. Lets say I have a non-bare respository at /srv/testing. To checkout that I would use cd /srv/testing/.git; GIT_WORK_TREE=/srv/production-www/ git checkout -f

In fact on my system I even automate this in a post-commit hook in my production.git repository. So when you push to production.git the latest version is automatically check out to the web root.

#!/bin/sh
#
# An example hook script that is called after a successful
# commit is made.
#
# To enable this hook, rename this file to "post-commit".

GIT_WORK_TREE=/srv/production-www/ git checkout -f
# ... misc other commands to verify permissions are set correctly.

If your only access to the remote system is webdav, it certainly should be possible to write a post-commit hook that will checkout to the webdav host, either directly or to a temporary location, which you can then script an upload.

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