Hi Roger, Just tried this and your correct with how it seems to work.
I guess the problem here is that the projects don't follow a particular format, and so NetBeans might struggle, and the wizard is an attempt to allow you to create a project around the sources, using the Java Project from Existing Sources option maybe? Using this option you'll need to ensure you select the correct project folder as the wizard will attempt to create a new project (or at least it looked like it for me there), and ensure you set the correct source and test folders so that NetBeans can handle those correctly. Alternatively you could try selecting the Open Sources in Favourites option in the Clone Completed dialog and select close. This would allow you to see the clones sources without any interference from the IDE. Regards John On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 14:59, Roger Debry <debr...@uvu.edu> wrote: > I have students who are writing their first Java programs, and pushing > them to GitHub. I want to clone their projects so that I can grade them. I > tried a simple “Hello world” Java application as a test to make sure that > all of my instructions were accurate and that I could in fact clone a Java > project from GitHub. As I explained, Netbeans 9 will clone the source code > files, but when it goes to create the project, it brings up the new project > dialogue and then creates a Java application with an empty main(). The URL > of this test program is https://github.com/debryro/test.git > > Roger deBry >
