How stable is the git plugin for eclipse?

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I was intending to have a play with git, and was wondering if anyone had used the git plugin for eclipse

I see it's at version 0.3.1, and was wondering if anyone knew how stable it was / any gotchas?


Update:

If you are using a recent version of Eclipse, your Help menu has an 'Eclipse Marketplace...' link.

Enter 'git' in the Find field. This shows me EGit.

This is also very high in the Popular plugins list.

Click install. Much easier than having to add update site locations by hand.

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I'm using if for day-to-day work and I find it stable. Lately the plugin has made good progress and has added:

  • merge support, including a in-Eclipse merge tool;
  • a basic synchronise view;
  • reading of .git/info/exclude and .gitignore files.
  • rebasing;
  • streamlined commands for pushing and pulling;
  • cherry-picking.

Git repositories view

Be sure to skim the EGit User Guide for a good overview of the current functionality.

I find that I only need to drop to the comand line for interactive rebases.

As an official Eclipse project I am confident that EGit will receive all the main features of the command-line client.

Meanwhile EclipseGit is an "Official Eclipse Technology Project" (09-05-07 GitWiki). I use the current version 0.5.0 (the Wiki is a step behind the development) from time to time, without any problems. Version comparison, commit, revert etc. is working well, although manual refresh's (F5) are necessary when using command line or other Git clients (usual and acceptable Eclipse behavior I think).

I've used it briefly, but it was still lacking support in several important areas (it wasn't doing renames/moves properly, or something). There also was no update site available for it.

I don't remember which version it was, but this was like 6 months ago. Hopefully it is better now.

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