git and eclipse

Question

I am totally lost on git, I read the docs but do not have a clue. I have been using CVS for decades and just need some help getting setup.

• I have a linux machine I setup a git repository on (created a directory and ran git init). I have ssh access to the machine.
• I have an eclipse java project that I would like to commit/push whatever to this git repository.
• I installed egit in Eclipse, but it does not give me any options to setup a url or hostname:port etc.
• Further it wants to make the repository where I have the project in the same directories. That cannot be right.

How do I get eclipse to commit this to the git repository on my linux machine?

I have no idea what people see in this program, I was never confused with CSV but now noone supports or allows CVS anymore.

Answer 1

The design goals of a git are explained well in The git parable

It may help with the required paradigm shift moving from CVS.

git was developed for the purpose of controlling submissions to the Linux kernel so the design goal of supporting the version control a large distributed project was a key one.