I'd imagine there is a 'new project from repo' option somewhere but I can't find it. Is there more to it than this, or am I missing something?
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Use the Team menu, select "Git" > "Clone..."
Once the repo has been cloned into a local folder, NetBeans will give you the option to open the project.
Trying to create a project and then clone into it fails because the target folder is not completely empty.
Just clone the repo into your (newly created) netbeans project and then refresh (build) it.
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user658182
Could you walk through the steps for that please for those of us who are brand new to Netbeans?
Cleankod
This way fails with message: "Specified destination already exists and is not an empty directory.". The only working way I use is via command line
git remote add origin {URL} and if the origin already exists I use git remote rm origin and then continue adding.Here's what worked for me:
> git clone https://github.com/path/project
Then in NetBeans: File > New Project > choose a project type "...with Existing Sources" > "Next" select "Source Folder" (the folder you cloned into) and press "Finish"
Unfortunately, it seems that your project must already correspond to a project type that NetBeans already supports (eg. Java Application, HTML5/JS Application, etc). If it doesn't you probably won't get this to work.
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But if you want to use a local git repository (i.e. a repo that was alredy cloned from the git server e.g. by Eclipse) in Netbeans without cloning it from the server, you have to click on Team --> Git --> Clone and in the input field "Repository URL" type file:///D:/your.local.git.repo/. In the field "Clone into:" you have to specify the destination folder of the cloning.
This will "make a copy" of D:/your.local.git.repo/ into the destination folder.
