How to use Git with Eclipse

This tutorial in the context of the Reproducible Research Workshop provides you with the first steps on how to use Git with the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse is heavily used to program in Java, as well as in other languages like C++, and even Python (via PyDev). (The tutorial was originally created on GitHub and hosted here.) Objectives of this tutorial: Set up and install Eclipse with EGit, and get a GitHub account Clone/fork an existing project from GitHub and import it into Eclipse Commit changes to a file in the GitHub project from Eclipse Part 1: Installation and setup To get started you need the following software installed on your computer: Eclipse, and EGit.