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"Invalid project description", importing from GIT repo problem

Asked 2011-05-21T19:49:11.050
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After copying my GIT repo from a PC computer onto my MAC, i can't seem to import it to an eclipse. Import happens via eGit plugin directly from existing local git repository.

Same exact import works perfectly fine on existing Windows computer.

Please advise. 

org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.ResourceException: Invalid project description.
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Project.checkDescription(Project.java:162)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Project.assertCreateRequirements(Project.java:52)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Project.create(Project.java:274)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Project.create(Project.java:256)
        at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.clone.ProjectUtils.createExistingProject(ProjectUtils.java:115)
        at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.clone.ProjectUtils.access$0(ProjectUtils.java:92)
        at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.clone.ProjectUtils$1.run(ProjectUtils.java:66)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:1975)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:1957)
        at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.clone.ProjectUtils.createProjects(ProjectUtils.java:84)
        at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.clone.GitImportWizard.importProjects(GitImportWizard.java:160)
        at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.clone.GitImportWizard.access$0(GitImportWizard.java:142)
        at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.clone.GitImportWizard$1.run(GitImportWizard.java:83)
        at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)
    Contains: OK
    Contains: /Users/me/Repositories/ABC overlaps the location of another project: 'ABC'
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Ok, i'll try to sum it up, after I faced similiary problems and wasted some time:

Eclipse Juno /4.2 SR1 (however I think it is a general misunderstanding of how ecplise imports projects)

  1. If you want your new project "connected" to git/mercurial, you'll have to clone and import via "Import/Git/Import from Git"
  2. The import will fail if your "workspace dir" equals the "local destination dir". A git clone via egit MUST NOT be placed! in the "eclipse workspace dir"!

The project import will fail because the projectname in the cloned ".project file" allready exists in the eclipse workspace dir when the import occurs.

Hope this saves some time.

answered 2012-11-19T07:37:32.463
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You should not copy git repos, you should clone them. However, looking at your error message, it doesn't especially seem like a git problem at all.

answered 2011-05-21T20:09:14.167

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