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| EGit - PDE related tools - Installation |
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| PREREQUISITES |
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| In order to install the EGit PDE Tools plugins you need to have the following |
| things. |
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| - Eclipse version 3.6.1 with PDE |
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| - Java 6. |
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| - A reasonably recent version of Git itself installed on your platform to |
| take care of what EGit does not yet do or do things that native |
| git does better. |
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| INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS |
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| - Delete any old versions of the plugin in the <eclipse-path>/dropins/[**/]org.eclipse.egit.* |
| - Start eclipse |
| - Make sure a recent JDK 1.6.x is among your installed JRE's. Which |
| one is the default should not matter but Java 6 is recommended. |
| - Import the jgit, egit and egit-pde projects. Make sure there are no compilation errors |
| - Now you can either export the plugin to a set of jar files to use in an Eclipse |
| installation or run it from within Eclipse. The latter is for development and |
| tracking down bugs. |
| - Export the plugin by selecting the org.eclipse.egit.* packages in package |
| explorer and choosing File/Export. Then select Deployable plug-ins and |
| fragments and choose the Next button. Set Directory to the dropins folder of your |
| installation directory (NOT the plugins directory). Select Finish. After |
| that restart Eclipse. |
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| DEBUGGING INSTRUCTIONS |
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| - Select the org.eclipse.egit.relengtools project for debugging, and using the context menu select |
| Run As(or Debug As) / Eclipse Application. Make sure the application runs |
| using JDK 1.6 (or JDK1.5.0_11 or newer) if you have any problems. |
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| There may be errors in the <workspace>/.metadata/.log or even on stdout that can help |
| you track down and problem. When reporting errors include stack traces and the commit |
| id or the version your plugin is built from, or the version of the plugin if it does |
| not contain a date. |
