git is now my favorite version control system. git and github are very powerful, it has (nearly) all features i can think about, and best of all: as a distributed version control system, i can work with it, even if disconnected from the network .

there are many standalone and ide integration available for git. beside of using tortoisegit , i’m using the egit eclipse integration. this post is about how to install egit in eclipse, particularly in codewarrior for mcu10.4 .

installation

i’m using screenshots with the eclipse based codewarrior for mcu10.4.

the normal egit update site is . because the eclipse version used by codewarrior for mcu10.4 is an older one, the current egit version. you will likely receive an error “missing requirement: git team provider ui 3.0.1.201307141637-r (org.eclipse.egit.ui 3.0.1.201307141637-r) requires ‘bundle org.eclipse.team.core [3.6.100,4.0.0)' but it could not be found". see this forum thread . the solution is to use 'http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-2.2/' as update site.

1. use the menu help > install new software and press 'add...' button
2. specify http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates as url. this is the url which has the latest and greatest egit version. however, as codewarrior for mcu10.4 is using an older version, use http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-2.2/
   

   egit repository for mcu10.4

   

   standard egit repository location

3. i’m not interested in the sources, so i just select the plugin:
   

   eclipse egit selection

pressing next, and it should not report any dependency problems. go through the rest of the dialogs, and after a restart you have egit integrated in eclipse.

summary

having an eclipse git integration as egit is really nice, and not difficult to install. the only hick-up is if using an older eclipse version as codewarrior for mcu10.4. then using the dedicated update site http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-2.2/ solves the problem.

happy egiting