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Bug 369089 - Simplify the "create & share project" process
Summary: Simplify the "create & share project" process
Status: NEW
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Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2012-01-19 09:48 EST by James Moger CLA
Modified: 2012-01-19 09:48 EST (History)
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Description James Moger CLA 2012-01-19 09:48:56 EST 
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It is pretty clunky to create a project and initialize/share it as a Git repository.  This is due to the design choice of forcing projects to be within a git repository rather than at the root of a repository (workspace/.git folder issue) which then cascades down to the workspace.  I understand that - especially without complete submodule support.

But it would be great if this process could be streamlined/simplified somehow.  There is an impedance mismatch between Eclipse workspace and EGit repository storage.  Maybe it is just me, but I find I am handicapped when I'm not working with an existing project/repository OR if I wanted to clone a repository locally and with the clone.
EGit's preferred layout:

Maybe a solution would be to offer a "Git Init" context menu item to create .git within the project.  Or maybe EGit should have a "Create Git project" wizard or be able to plug something into the Eclipse Create Project wizard.

Reproducible: Always