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Bug 315562

Summary:	Import from Git appears to only let you import from existing git repositories
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	0.8.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Alex Blewitt

2010-06-03 07:45:10 EDT

Build Identifier: 

The File -> Import from Git goes via the 'Git repositories' view. It's not immediately clear (if you come from an Eclipse background) that you have to click 'clone' to do anything useful from this point.

I'd argue that showing the Git repositories view is almost counter productive, since it only shows you Git repositories which you have previously added - and implicitly, by doing the import, you probably want to import (clone) a new one.

I suggest we skip showing the 'repositories' view and go straight to the 'clone' page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. File -> Git -> Import Projects
2. Screen shows 'repositories' view, with no place to put in URL
3. You have to do 'clone' to do anything useful

Suggested workflow:

a. File -> Git -> Import Projects
b. Go straight to clone, do not pass go

Comment 1 Alex Blewitt

2010-06-03 07:51:28 EDT

Note that once cloned, you get back to the 'git repositories' view which forces you to then click on it to import projects. We should just take them to the import projects page after cloning as part of the import wizard.

Comment 2 Alex Blewitt

2011-02-11 12:50:33 EST

This has been fixed in 0.11 or earlier.