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Bug 347073

Summary:	unclear what the difference is between remove and delete repository
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Holger Staudacher <holger.staudacher>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Adrian Goerler <adrian.goerler>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	adrian.goerler, egit.ui-inbox, matthias.sohn
Version:	1.0
Target Milestone:	1.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Holger Staudacher

2011-05-24 15:58:32 EDT

For me it was not clear what the difference is between delete and remove repository using the repository's context menu. I think this will confuse users because in all other toolings for version controls systems you actually can't delete the real repository. You simply can remove it from the view and this is called delete ;)

Comment 1 Matthias Sohn

2011-06-28 09:06:13 EDT

Of course you can't delete a remote CVS or SVN repository from Eclipse. With DVCS this is different as you always work using a local clone.

We could simply add tooltips "Remove repository from workspace" / "Delete repository from disk" to these commands to make this more obvious to novice users.

Comment 2 Adrian Goerler

2011-07-01 03:45:16 EDT

Adding a tooltip to a context menu doesn't seem to be possible.

I have proposed a patch for this, which would change the menu lable "Remove Repository" to "Remove Repository from View":

http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3805

Comment 3 Adrian Goerler

2011-07-03 14:54:59 EDT

Change http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3805 merged.