How to install Eclipse EGit Plugin

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EGit is an Eclipse Team provider for the Git version control system. Git is a distributed SCM, which means every developer has a full copy of all history of every revision of the code, making queries against the history very fast and versatile.

The EGit project is implementing Eclipse tooling on top of the JGit Java implementation of Git.

Step 1: Open Eclipse

Step 2: Navigate to Help -> Eclipse Marketplace

Step 3: Search for EGit and Click on install for listed version

Step 4: Select all Confirm Selected Options and click Confirm

Step 5: Accept the Licence and click Finish

Step 6: Trust Certificate and click Accept Selected

Step 7: Restart Eclipse after you get the popup for restart.