One of my goals while working on the new project is to be able to easily work from both of my machines. The desktop machine I use at home and my Dell Mini 9 which I can take with me to places like the library or the coffee shop.
Git has been great for this. It’s so easy keep things in sync using Git.
I did get a little tripped up when doing my Linux setup though. I did a “git pull” which created a folder whose name is the same name I wanted for my Eclipse project. I am keeping my Eclipse project configuration files out of the git db, so I had to create a new project in Eclipse on the Linux machine. The issue is that naming a project in Eclipse also applies the name to the folder which contains the project files. So I had a name collision between Git and Eclipse.
I ran Git first and then started Eclipse. I created a new Dynamic Web Project out of the File menu, and gave it a temporary name that was not the same as my Git folder. I then shut down Eclipse and pulled the project files into the Git folder. When I started up Eclipse again I ran “Import” from the File menu and opened the project from it’s new location.
When you go to right-click, Run-As in Eclipse you will see the next problem. The web-project is named according to the temporary name you chose earlier. The way around this is to search through various configuration files for the temporary name and change it to be the same as your Git db name.
And that’s about it!
