Git and EGit are getting popular. In case you want to start hacking on EGit this will give you some hints.

First install EGit following this guide EGit Tutorial.

First you need a few libraries from Orbit via cvs. The cvs location is “:pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org/cvsroot/tools”. You need:

• org.eclipse.orbit/com.jcraft.jsch
• org.eclipse.orbit/org.kohsuke.args4j
• org.eclipse.orbit/javax.servlet

See Libraries from Orbit for getting these libraries.

Select File -> Import -> Git -> Git Repository and paste the URL “git://egit.eclipse.org/jgit.git” into the first line.

Do the same with “git://egit.eclipse.org/egit.git”.

Currently there is a little bug in EGit, please see Bug Report. If you facing the problem that the Team operations are not available on your new project my EGit Tutorial describes what to do to make the Team operations available. This should be fixed very soon, path is already commited to the master branch.

You have now the source code in your workspace and can start hacking.

For more info please see the excellent EGit Contributor Guide.

Eclipse recently started to provide Git mirrors of the cvs repositories.You find the location of the Git repository on the following website Eclipse Git repositories.

If you have the git commad line tools installed (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get git-core) you can use the following command to check these repositories out from the command line:

git clone url

for example to get the JFace snippets use the following command.

git clone git://dev.eclipse.org/org.eclipse.jface/org.eclipse.jface.snippets.git

After that checkout you can import the project into Eclipse via File -> Import -> General -> Existing Project into Workspace.

Of course you can use the EGit plugin to checkout Git repositories directly in Eclipse. Check the excellent EGit User Guide for this.

Via Git we have another nice option to get the Eclipse source code in additon to cvs and svn.

I believe Git does currently not support Project Set Files (.psf) similar to cvs to get a consistent set of plugins but at least individual plugins can be checked out.

Update I have created a small introduction to Git Git Tutorial and to EGit Git with Eclipse – EGit Tutorial. Hope this helps.