Struggled with this for a while too: Go to the Git Perspective -> Expand your Project -> Expand Remotes -> Expand the remote you want to save your password. Right-click on the Fetch or Push -> Select Change Credentials… Enter username and password -> Select Ok This is the workaround I’ve found to work. It’s … Read more
The implications of both solutions are listed directly in the user guide that you linked. I can tell you that the part This can result in performance issues is unfortunately very true. So if you have a git directory with a huge number of files inside your workspace, many git operations will start with a … Read more
As mentioned in this EGit tutorial, the destination directory you mention when importing (cloning) a Git repo is any directory you want, in which the .git will be created: You don’t have to select the workspace itself (at least, you should select the workspace/myproject subdirectory, in order to not make the all Eclipse workspace a … Read more
(Original answer: June 2011) MatrixFrog correctly points out to the bug 299315, which mentions those hooks aren’t supported yet. You also can explore the JGit repository, now on GitHub, which doesn’t show any commit about hooks. And you can search for ‘hook’ in the EGit User Guide: the notion of hook isn’t mentioned either. Update … Read more
Your local master branch is not set up to track remote master branch. You could do git pull origin master to tell git the explicit branch you want to pull or you add this to your .git/config: [branch “master”] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master When you push to master for the first time, add … Read more
Eclipse Preferences / Team / Git / Configuration / User Settings (“core” section) key: autocrlf value: false The key should already exist, so just need to edit the value. If creating a new key then use core.autocrlf.
Might also be bad SSL cert, fix the server If you have a GIT server with an outdated or self-signed SSL cert fix the server, afterwards everything should run fine. Insecure Hotfix: Let the client accept any certificate The following solution is just a mere hotfix on client side and should be avoided as it … Read more
This can be done via the context menu “Replace with/File in Git index” on the file in package view.
My answer may be outdated but hopefully it can be useful for someone. In your Eclipse go to Window > Preferences > General > Network Connections > SSH2 (or just type “SSH2” in preferences window filter box). In “Key Management” tab press “Generate RSA Key…” button. Optionally you can add comment (usually e-mail address) and … Read more
The answers are correct but don’t mention how to sync code between the public repo and the fork. Here is the full workflow (we’ve done this before open sourcing React Native): First, duplicate the repo as others said (details here): Create a new repo (let’s call it private-repo) via the Github UI. Then: git clone … Read more