

Watch out for the extra steps needed to make the local repository work as a Joomla site. Linux users will probably know to substitute public_html for Sites. For me it is /Users/username/Sites/joomla-cms-4. It could be in the local web tree if you want to use it for testing. The git local repository and test web site Linux users will probably know to substitute home for Users. So one could be /Users/username/eclipse-workspace/joomla-cms. It should not be in the web tree! As I work mostly on a Mac laptop the default location for me is /Users/username/eclipse-workspace. This is where Eclipse stores its own data for each project. It is not obvious before you download and install Eclipse that there are at least two places where data are stored apart from wherever the Eclipse code is located. Eventually I decided to start again and document the process for other semi-experienced developers who are new to Joomla, especially the parts I did not fully appreciate the first time around. That is when I realized I had not understood exactly what I was doing. I read the available tutorials and happily muddled along until this year when I moved on to try to help with core testing and bug-fixing for Joomla! 4.

I first started using Eclipse many years ago for a private Joomla project and a private remote git repository not on Github. 8.2 On my Linux workstation running Linux Mint 20.7 Add original joomla-cms repository to Eclipse.2.2 The git local repository and test web site.
