Initial Check-Out of Project from Repository

GIT
SVN

There is an existing project in repository. Your task is to create a new server project with content from the repository.

GIT

Eclipse Plugin - EGit
External GUI Tool - TortoiseGit
External Command Line Tool

To version files with git, you can use Eclipse plugin (EGit), external GUI or command line tool.

Eclipse Plugin - EGit
  1. Clone the remote git repository:

    Switch to Git perspective.

    In the Git Repositories tab, click Clone a git and add the clone to this view.

    Enter the remote repository location and password.

    Choose branches to be tracked

    Enter path for local repository.

    Switch back to Clover perspective.

  2. Import the project.

    From the File menu, choose Import.

    Choose GitProjects from Git and click Next.

    Choose Existing local repository.

    Choose the repository.

    Select Import existing projects option.

    Select projects that should be imported.

  3. Convert the project to Server Project.

    Right click the project in Navigator and choose Convert to server project.

    Enter CloverETL Server URL, User name and Password.

    Select Create new sandbox. Enter the sandbox Name.

    Select type of merge. As you created a new sandbox, you can use Use local content only (sandbox will be cleaned) option.

You have a new server project. The project has content of master branch of local repository.

EGit allows you to have more projects within the save repository.

External GUI Tool - TortoiseGit
  1. Clone the remote repository.

    In File Explorer, right click and choose Git Clone.

    In Git clone - TortoiseGit dialog, enter the path to remote repository and the path to local repository.

    Click OK.

    Enter password.

    Close the cloning log window.

  2. Import the project.

  3. Convert project to Server Project.

External Command Line Tool
  1. Clone the git repository

    Type the command

    git clone path_to_remote path_to_local

    e. g.

    git clone ssh://[email protected]:30022/home/git/project1 project1

  2. Import the project.

  3. Convert project to Server Project.

SVN

Eclipse Plugin - Subclipse
External GUI Tools - TortoiseSVN
Command Line Tools
Eclipse Plugin - Subclipse
  1. Import project from SVN.

    Choose FileImport.

    Choose SVNCheckout Projects from SVN.

    In Select/Create Location step of the wizard, choose Create new repository location.

    Specify location of SVN repository. The URL for remote projects can be, e.g., https://svn.example.org/svn. The URL for local projects can be, e.g., file:///Users/clover/repositories/svn/repo1.

    Select the folder (project) to be imported.

    In Check Out As step, choose Check out as a project in the workspace and change ProjectName if necessary.

    Optionally, change the location to which the project will be checked or add project to working sets.

  2. Convert the project to Server Project.

External GUI Tools - TortoiseSVN

You can use an external graphical tool to check out an svn project. The following steps describe checking out of an existing project with help of TortoiseSVN.

  1. Check-out the content of projects from svn:

    Right click the project directory in File Explorer and choose SVN Checkout... from context menu.

    Delete the last entry from Checkout directory text field. Click OK.

    TortoiseSVN complains that the directory is not empty. Choose Yes.

  2. Import the project.

  3. Convert the project to Server Project.

Command Line Tools
  1. Check out the project from svn:

    Move to the directory with the Project in workspace (on the computer with Designer).

    Type svn checkout --force /path/to/repository . The --force forces svn to overwrite the content created during the project creation. Otherwise, you would have to resolve conflicts after checkout.

  2. Import the project.

  3. Convert the project to Server Project.