I have a working Spring Boot application that I created in Eclipse that I wold like to put into a new Git repository.
Unfortunately, I cannot seem to do this using Eclipse (or any other Git tool).
I am using Eclipse v2019-06 (4.12.0) and the Spring Tool Suite (STS) v4.3.1
To illustrate the problem, I take the following steps:
I create the Spring Boot project using STS:
Click on "Create a Project"->"Spring Boot"->"Spring Starter Project"
Project name is GitProject
Nothing fancy in this project. Createed a HelloController class that returned some HTML. Ran a browser to test it and displayed a "greeting" web page.
Compile project mvnw clean package
Successful compile. Ran and successfully displayed web page: java -jar GitProject-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
The project is successful and the service works. Place project into Git
There are procedures described to create and push to new repositories. Based on procedures provided in Stack Overflow answers, perform the following:
Create the repository git init
Make it bare git init --bare
Create a basic README file for adding to the repository echo Testing > README
Add and commit the README file git add README git commit -m "Initial Code"
Now put the project into the repository. Or at least, attempt to...
- Create a project in a different folder, importing from the new repository Click on "Import projects..."->"Projects from Git"
Clone the URI from the new repository, Only the master branch is available. Place the destination in the project folder. Because there is no existing project in the new repo, and since the IDE does not offer a way to successfully create a new Spring Boot project from a repo (I made several attempts to use the New Project Wizard to create an STS project when creating the repo. Every attempt led to different Exceptions being thrown while creating the project), select "Import as General Project" in the "Select a Wizard" dialog.
Go to the folder with the original GitProject project. Copy everything from that folder and paste it onto the new project
Edit the .gitignore file that gets included in the Spring Boot project. It is important to remove all references to the STS files except for the .sts4-cache file. These need to be saved at least once in order to ensure that the Spring Boot information is saved in the repository.
Right- click on the project and select Team->Commit
Stage everything, enter a commit message, then click on "Commit and Push"
See the following failure:
master-master [remote rejected] Repository
branch is currently checked out error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match the work tree to HEAD.
You can set the 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some other way.
To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'.
What is strange is that somehow this branch remains "checked out" after being cloned but the IDE does not appear to provide a way to "check it back in". Worse: I actually tried just cloning the new repo, changing the README file, then committing and pushing it (without including the Spring Boot code) and that attempt yielded the same failure.
So how do I get this code committed and pushed into my repository? What step is missing from the documentation of how to do this???
