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Bug 349453

Summary:	Paste remote repository URL into Git Repositories View
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, matthias.sohn
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Wayne Beaton

2011-06-15 11:00:25 EDT

I copied a Git URL from a GitHub repository and attempted to paste it into the Git Repositories view, resulting in a  "Clipboard content is not a directory path error". Intuitively, this seems like a reasonable enough thing to want to do.

At a minimum, the error should probably be reported in a slightly less intimidating manner. The error dialog, combined with the entry in the error log, makes it look like a bug.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2011-08-25 05:36:14 EDT

The feature seems to be broken

I tried to paste:
/gitroot/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui.git
ssh://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui.git
and what I got from 'Copy Path to Clipboard'

None of this works. I get an error dialog, saying it's not a directory path.

Comment 2 Matthias Sohn

2011-08-25 05:43:49 EDT

pushed patches for review: 

"Paste Repository Path" should accept parent folder of git directory
http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4058 (already submitted)

"[repoView] Enable pasting a URI to initiate cloning"
http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4061

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2011-08-25 05:45:04 EDT

That's fast :-)

Comment 4 Kevin Sawicki

2011-11-08 20:31:27 EST

Matthias, can this be closed?  Looks like both patches were merged.

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2011-11-09 05:15:03 EST

(In reply to comment #4)
> Matthias, can this be closed?  Looks like both patches were merged.

I can confirm that it now works as expected.

Comment 6 Kevin Sawicki

2011-11-09 11:07:47 EST

Thanks Dani, resolving as fixed.