What Is Egit

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.

What is EGit and JGit?

JGit is the Java implementation of Git. It is a library, that also can be used in your own applications. It also provides some sort of CLI operations. EGit on the other side is the Eclipse team provider plugin for Git, which uses JGit as Git implementation.

How do I know my EGit version in Eclipse?

Check to see if you have egit – go to “window”->”show view”->”other” and see if you have “Git”. If you do, then you have egit already installed and you should go to Step 2. Select egit only and continue through the installation procedure to install the egit plugin.