Integrating Github With Eclipse

Key Takeaways

Hey, what's up guys? My name is Aerno. Welcome to another GitHub tutorial. So, today we're going to talk about integrating a GitHub repository with Eclipse. Okay, so to do that, um, basically what the first thing you'll need is to go to help and then install new software. And the reason I'm on Windows, by the way, is because, um, I've already got it all set up on Mac. And, uh, in order to demonstrate this, I'd have to, you know, unset it and do the I'll do the whole thing over again. So I thought it'd be easy to do it on Windows. So the directory that we're going to work with is called egit. So um that's what it looks like. So you'll have to hit add, then type in egit and then the uh URL which is right over here. And again the link to that will be in the description. So egit basically allows you it's a plugin for Eclipse and it allows you to uh integrate git with uh Eclipse which is obviously immensely useful. So once you type that in um or once you select that website hit uh select all and then next and then I've already got it installed but if you don't keep hitting next accept the agreement blah blah blah uh then it will download and install and then you'll be prompted to restart Eclipse and hit yes and then once you do restart Eclipse you should get to this view. Okay so this is a blank new workspace as well. I haven't done anything here at all. Um so to set this up what we'll have to do is uh basically import it from Eclipse uh sorry import it from GitHub directly. So to do that hit file and then actually first of all hit window go to show view and then other and then you'll have this tab here called git uh this folder here. So I expand that and there'll be a um a view here called git repository. So hit that and hit okay and it'll pop up over here. Okay. And essentially what we're going to do is clone a git repository. But just in case you don't see this or if you've already got some, what you'll have to do is probably hit file and then import or you can actually just right click here in in package explorer or navigator and hit import. And then you'll see this t folder here called git. So you want to click on that and then projects from git. If you got the github plugin, it'll just say github over here as well as this. And that makes a lot easier because then you can just type in churn chat and it'll find it for you. But in case you don't, projects from git right here. Hit next. Hit URI. Hit next. And then what you'll have to do is copy the URI of this. So it's not this link. Okay. What you'll have to do over here is um come over here and copy the actual HTTP HTTPS here. So copy clipboard. There's a button and then paste it over here. So it's essentially the same except it's got a dot kit extension on the end. So uh once you paste that in, it should automatically detect all the settings. So then you don't need authentication of course. It's a public repository. Then hit next. You'll get the remote branches. Uh there'll be one called master which is should be the only one there. So grab that. Okay. So make sure that that's selected. Then hit next and it'll set up a directory for you. You can change that to whatever you want by default. I think it' be on Windows your username then git and then the name of the project. So journey chat in this case. Uh grab that, hit next. And then what you'll have to do once it detects this is because the repository does not have a project file, you'll have to import it as a general project. Make sure that you do that. Okay. So then hit next. And then when that's done, hit finish. And as you can see, it's imported here. Now, that's brilliant. And if you go over here, you can go to source, you can go to com j chat, login, whatever. It's all there, which is great. Now, the problem you might run, you might run into, in fact, you probably will, is if you try and debug it, you'll uh this will show up. So, the selection cannot be launched and there are no recent launches. Now, the reason this shows up is because this this project that is imported, it's not a Java project. It's just a general project and Eclipse doesn't know how to run it. Okay. So, we need to tell Eclipse how to run it. Okay. And one thing you might notice as well here is this get repositories tab and this has all of your um stuff like the working directory with all the source code as well as the remote addresses which is where you'll be able to actually uh fetch the latest changes but we'll talk about that in another episode. Um okay. So, how do we set this up as an Eclipse project as a Java project? Now, to do that, the best way to do is the best the best thing to do is actually delete it. So, let's right click on it and hit delete. Make sure you don't delete the project contents. Do not do that. Okay. And take note of the location because you're going to need that. In fact, I'm just going to copy that if I can. I'm not sure if that's copyable, but hit okay. So, now it's gone. Okay. Now, we want to go file, new Java project. Make sure you hit Java project. And uh the default location, paste in that thing. Luckily, it did copy. And then, whoops, churn chat. And then type the project name Cherno chat as well. Okay. So, hit finish. It'll get imported right here. And if we go to the source over here and expand it login Java, you'll see that if we run it, it will show up. Now, this don't worry about the uh the style of it. Unfortunately, when I pushed it, it didn't push the UI manager stuff that we added in episode 3 yet. So, that's why it doesn't have UI manager set up properly. That's why it looks weird. But the point is, it works. Now, you can probably notice here that it's not connected to GitHub anymore because it doesn't have that little master thing or whatever. Um to set that up, it's really it's really simple. We just need to right click on the project name, hit team, and then share project. Uh under git, hit next. It should automatically detect it because we've already got agit folder here. So just hit finish. You can see it detects it. And then this will all appear here. And then you'll actually be able to fetch um pretty much anything you want. So there's nothing to fetch. Everything is up to date. Okay. And that's how that works. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. So, if you did, please hit the like button and I'll see you guys next time. Goodbye. [Music]