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Recent versions of MS Windows decided to prevent you from renaming a file in the file explorer without using a file extension. Ensure you have removed the. Create a new Java project called com. If you are using Java 9 or higher, you will be asked to create a module-info. The following dialog is not shown if you use Java 8 or lower. Right-click on the source folder and select New Package and create the com.

Right-click on the package folder and select New Class and create the following class. To put your new project under version control with Git, right-click on your project, select Team Share Project Git. If another version control system is installed you have to select that you want to use Git as a version control system.

Afterwards, select your existing Git repository from the drop-down list and press the Finish button. The following screenshot shows the directory in the Git Repository view.

In this view drag all files into the Staged Changes area, write a meaningful commit message and press the commit button. Commit the changes of the GitTest class but do not add and commit the Readme. In the Git Staging view drag only the GitTest class into the Staged Changes area, write a meaningful commit message and press the commit button.

This change is now also stored in your local Git repository. The Readme. Commit the Readme. By now you should know that you have to stage the file and commit it. Afterwards, use the History view to review which files were included in your individual commits. We want to see the version of the GitTest. Select the first commit in the history view, find the file selected in the commit and select Open this version via the context menu. Create a new file nammed test.

Stage and commit the new file. Make a change to your test. Git shows it as change, as changes in. You can of course have multiple projects in a Git repository. To validate that, create two more Java projects called com. Create at least one Java class in each project. Select your Git repository in the following dialog and add both projects to this repository. Press the Finish button. Afterwards validate that the projects have been moved.

You can checking your workspace directory and your Git repository directory via a file explorer. You see that the projects have been moved from there original location to the Git repository. The changes have not yet been committed. Now commit all files in the two projects to your Git repository. In this exercise you will clone a Git repository and import the existing projects from this repository into your workspace.

Enter the URL to your Git repository which you want to clone. You can use the following example URI.

Git supports several protocols, e. You can paste the clone URL to the first line of the dialog, the rest of the dialog is filled based on this data. After pressing the Next button the system will allow you to import the existing branches.

Select at least the master branch. The next dialog allows you to specify where the repository should be copied to and which local branch should be created initially. Once this dialog is completed, you have clone the remote repository into a local Git repository. You can use Git operation on these projects. The project may not compile, as you may miss pre-requisites.

For this exercises, this can be ignored, the purpose of it was to learn how to clone a repository. If you have already an existing Git repository you can add it to the Git Repostory view. Afterwards you can import the projects into your workspace via the File Import Git Project from Git menu entry. Select Local if you want to important from a local repository or Clone URL if you first want to clone the repository. The following screenshot shows multiple local repositories.

To import the project contained in one of them, select one entries and press the Next button. The wizard allows you to specify the projects to import. Git allows to adjust the local commit history via the interactive rebase functionality. Eclipse provides support for simplified versions of this as well as support for full interactive rebase operations. This includes changing the order of commits or combining, removing and adjusting commits. To reword a commit, right-click on it in the History view and select Modify Reword to change the commit message.

You can squash several commits by selecting them in the History view. Select afterwards the Modify Squash menu entry from the context menu. To start the full interactive rebase open the History view and click Rebase Interactive on the context menu.

Select the last commit preceding the oldest commit you want to rewrite. This opens the Git Interactive Rebase view.

The Git Interactive Rebase view allow you perform the full interactive rebase functionality. It shows the rebase plan populated with the commits to be modified. They are sorted in topological order of the sequence in which they will be processed. This order is the reverse order which you see via the git log command or in the History view.

The initial action for all commits is "Pick". Use this view to finalize the rebase plan. For example, you can reorder commits with the arrow buttons and select the rebase action you want to apply to the commit. The following screenshot demonstrates a possible selection. When the rebase plan is finalized, click the Start button to start the interactive rebase command. Eclipse Git processes the plan. It stops at all commits with an action which needs user feedback.

For example, the reword action which requires entering the new commit message. The dialog for changing the commit message is depicted in the following screenshot.

If something goes wrong during the rebase operation, you can select Abort in order to stop the rebase operation and roll back to the starting point. To use Git you must configure your full name and email address. This information is used to fill the author and committer information of commits you create. These Git configuration settings can be adjusted via the Eclipse preference setting.

If you clone a new repository via the Eclipse IDE, it will be cloned by default to a new sub-folder in a default directory. This default path can be configured via the Windows Preferences Team Git entry in the Default Repository folder field.

You can also use Eclipse configuration variables to define the path, e. To simplify access to the common Git operations you can activate the Git toolbar. Afterwards you can configure which Git operations should be available via the Tool Bar Visibility or the Menu Visibility tab. The Git Repositories view allows you to browse, add. It also allows to import projects, manage your branches and much more. The content area of the Git Repositories view shows the existing Git repositories and the important data of each repository.

Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked 0. Related Hot Network Questions. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Vikas Patidar Vikas Patidar And if it is disabled, just select two or more files The quality of the comparison increases greatly in my opinion.

Show 1 more comment. Doon Doon No window opens for me in latest eclipse and fresh workspace, anyone experience the same? Version: 4. Same here on 4. DanielSokolowski: A file has to be selected in the Project Explorer or Package Explorer, then the dialog will open - and you can select any external file outside of the workspace.

Not exactly intuitive THIS just saved my life! Thx for digging up this old gem! If yes then is there also any shortcut for it? Andrey Minogin Andrey Minogin 4, 5 5 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. I laughed so much. I make the same all the time : — drJava.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I wonder how useful the numbered shortcut could possibly be ArtOfWarfare, you should not remember which is the 7th file open.

Moreover this number changes when you open another new file. I also do not think that this is the most elegant way but this is the current situation. For the other options you should also check some list but then you may narrow it by typing part of the name.

Yanki Twizzy Yanki Twizzy 7, 8 8 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 65 65 bronze badges. You can't set it to as many as you want. I tried setting it to 20 and got an error message saying I could only have up to I've edited your answer.