Compatibility of EGit - or are there alternatives?

Question

I\'m developing with Eclipse and managing my repositories with git and gitorious. Until now, I used git on the command line. I\'ve looked around for a way to integrate git into

Answer 1

I know you are looking for a way to integrate into Eclipse, but in my experience trying to do this does not work. Even if EGit is perfectly compatible with your Git repo's it is still buggy as hell. I use NetBeans now which has Mercurial built in and optional Git plugins, they are still useless!

If you want a nice visual way to work with Git then try SmartGit or Tower. I have used both a little and heard great things about them, but mainly stick to CLI + GitX.

Answer 2

As one of the developers of EGit and JGit, all I can say is that the projects are still in beta (incubation in eclipse.org terms). We are evolving quickly and have managed to pump out a release every 3 months for the past year. We recently shipped 0.10.1 and are planning to push a 0.11 release at the end of February. Our goal is to ship a 1.0 for the major Eclipse Indigo release in June which would be usable by the whole Eclipse community. This is required because eclipse.org itself is moving to Git.

One of the best things you can do with EGit is to checkout the user guide which aims to help people use EGit in the way it was intended, See Eclipse Wiki

If you have any questions, you can always use our mailing list or bugzilla. More information can be found in our extensive contributor guide.

On a side note, SmartGit under the covers uses JGit to handle the operations. Gerrit the popular code review tool (used by the Android dev team and others) uses JGit under the covers too. JGit has ~1800 tests to ensure compatibility with Git and even has some developers that work on CGit too. In the beginning we had a bit of trouble with compatibility but that is no longer the case with our extensive test suite. The project has developers from SAP, Google, Red Hat and other companies.