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Bug 351782

Summary: EGit doesn't have any menu options
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: Ben <Ben.Arnold>
Component: p2Assignee: P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: caniszczyk, matthias.sohn, pascal
Version: 3.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ben CLA 2011-07-11 22:55:24 EDT 
When you install EGit on Helios none of the menu options appear. Reading the documentation I expect to see at least a new Git perspective and a import wizard.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Eclipse Helios.

2. Install EGit (from the market place because the Helios update site version has a different problem).

3. Check that it's installed in About Eclipse.

4. Go to Open Perspective > Other and look for a Git perspective. There is none.


Versions:

Eclipse: 20110301-1815
EGit: 1.0.0.201106090707-r


Here's a forum thread I found about this bug:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/173822/
Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk CLA 2011-07-11 22:57:17 EDT 
Can you import a Git repository?

Is there a Git Repositories View?

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Basic_Tutorial:_Adding_a_project_to_version_control
Comment 2 Ben CLA 2011-07-11 23:20:07 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you import a Git repository?
> 
> Is there a Git Repositories View?
> 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Basic_Tutorial:_Adding_a_project_to_version_control

There is no import option or repositories view.
Comment 3 Ben CLA 2011-07-12 18:41:28 EDT 
Could be that this only happens when you install Eclipse as root and run it as another user. I haven't tried installing Helios as my own user to test this.

I suspect there's something broken with plug-in installations when you have Eclipse installed as root. This might also explain why this hasn't been a show-stopper for many other people.

Anyway I've managed to upgrade to Indigo by installing it as the user that will run it and EGit installs fine then.
Comment 4 Matthias Sohn CLA 2011-08-10 07:54:54 EDT 
Forwarding to the installation experts
Comment 5 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2011-08-11 18:45:57 EDT 
On a mac with the install marked read-only, I have been able to successfully install egit from the eclipse market place. This was on eclipse 3.6.1.
Please reopen with more details on how to reproduce if this still occurs for you.