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I'm developing with Eclipse and managing my repositories with git and gitorious. Until now, I used git on the command line. I've looked around for a way to integrate git into Eclipse and found EGit. This has also been asked on SO two years ago. But as EGit uses JGit, a git clone written in Java, I'm concerned about its compatibility with the original git.
I know that EGit is missing some (maybe a lot) of git's advanced features, so I would use EGit for daily basic uses like commits, checkouts, pulls and pushes, branching, etc, and use git for more advanced - but less frequent - tasks. Any experiences? I won't use EGit if there is any chance that my repos get broken just because git and EGit didn't agree on how to manage them!
Another question: Are there alternatives to EGit? I couldn't find any.
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EGit is an Eclipse Team provider for the Git version control system. Git is a distributed SCM, which means every developer has a full copy of all history of every revision of the code, making queries against the history very fast and versatile.
1) You must COMMIT your changes at the file or folder level. This only commits them to a local git repository. To do the local commit, select the file, right-click menu, Team -> Commit.
Drag all of your changes from Unstaged to Staged, add a commit message, then click the Commit button, which is the little red arrow into a yellow silo in the top right of the window. If you then look at the Git Reflog tab in the Git Repository Exploring perspective, you should see your commit recorded.
As one of the developers of EGit and JGit, all I can say is that the projects are still in beta (incubation in eclipse.org terms). We are evolving quickly and have managed to pump out a release every 3 months for the past year. We recently shipped 0.10.1 and are planning to push a 0.11 release at the end of February. Our goal is to ship a 1.0 for the major Eclipse Indigo release in June which would be usable by the whole Eclipse community. This is required because eclipse.org itself is moving to Git.
One of the best things you can do with EGit is to checkout the user guide which aims to help people use EGit in the way it was intended, See Eclipse Wiki
If you have any questions, you can always use our mailing list or bugzilla. More information can be found in our extensive contributor guide.
On a side note, SmartGit under the covers uses JGit to handle the operations. Gerrit the popular code review tool (used by the Android dev team and others) uses JGit under the covers too. JGit has ~1800 tests to ensure compatibility with Git and even has some developers that work on CGit too. In the beginning we had a bit of trouble with compatibility but that is no longer the case with our extensive test suite. The project has developers from SAP, Google, Red Hat and other companies.
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