Dmitry Churbanov

Eclipse Helios (ver. 3.6) is out and the second top requested feature was Git support. And here it is: EGit plug-in. It is still in the “Incubation Phase“, but you already can try it.

In this tutorial I will show the basic steps of creating Java project in eclipse using EGit plug-in. Eclipse “Helios” and EGit version 0.8.4 are used in this tutorial.

Git is a Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) (as Mercurial about which I wrote earlier). As well as Mercurial, Git mirrors your repository. In other words every time when you check out code you make a full backup of a repository.