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Bug 347073 - unclear what the difference is between remove and delete repository
Summary: unclear what the difference is between remove and delete repository
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 1.1   Edit
Assignee: Adrian Goerler CLA
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Reported: 2011-05-24 15:58 EDT by Holger Staudacher CLA
Modified: 2011-07-03 14:54 EDT (History)
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Description Holger Staudacher CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2011-07-03 14:54:59 EDT 
Change http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,3805 merged.