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Eclipse: Importing existing project: "Invalid project description"

Jan 23, 2012 1 min read

Monday morning, 07:30 AM. Me, starting the computer after the weekend, executing a git pull from my repository to fetch the latest src. Then I opened my freshly installed Eclipse JavaScript version followed by a nice "Import existing project" (I pushed the project on my Mac previously) on the just fetched git repository. Fail.

Invalid project description

Damn. My first thought was a potential incompatibility, given that the project was created on my Mac previously, and I just tried to import it on Win7.
So if you should encounter a similar problem try the following. Assume you pulled the repository into C:\gitrepo\mygit. Then

create another directory, for instance C:\eclipsewrkspc\mygit
start Eclipse to use that directory as its workspace.
use the "Import existing project" functionality and point to the git directory
Uncheck the "copy into workspace" flag.

That approach should work, at least it did for me.

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