I just installed the EGit plugin for Eclipse, restarted Eclipse and it shows well in the Installed Software list but... I can't find any added menus or access to its features?
What am I missing?
To prove that I am not hallucinating here is a screenshot of the list:
But there is no hint or clue in any of the menus, menu items, perspectives or views that it's there...
No sign in menus:
No sign in projects:
No sign in perspectives:
Do I need to do some additional configuration somewhere to enable it?
b) Open the drop down list at the top, and select 'Luna' from Available Sites e) And select the 'Eclipse Git Team Provider' (only),then choose Next> button at bottom, agree to the licensing, and Finish the install wizard. Egit will be installed, and then Eclipse will restart.
Eclipse IDE supports Git via a plugin EGit. In recent versions of Eclipse, EGit is already installed by default. I am using Eclipse Version: 2018-09 (4.9.0).
3.The following are steps for installing Egit client for accessing the repositories: b) Open the drop down list at the top, and select 'Luna' from Available Sites e) And select the 'Eclipse Git Team Provider' (only),then choose Next> button at bottom, agree to the licensing, and Finish the install wizard.
b) Open the drop down list at the top, and select 'Luna' from Available Sites e) And select the 'Eclipse Git Team Provider' (only),then choose Next> button at bottom, agree to the licensing, and Finish the install wizard.
Mystery solved.
It turns out that I mistakenly installed Eclipse JGit instead of Eclipse EGit. Once I selected the EGit package instead:
Things went fine:
One letter difference... (E instead of J)
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