Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse

Adding a project to Git

Git is a distributed repository. Unlike some of the other source management systems, Git maintains the complete local repository too. So you can perform activities such as check-out and check-in in the local repository without connecting to any remote repository. When you are ready to move your code to a remote repository, you can connect to it and push your files to the remote repository.

If you are new to Git, take a look at the following documentation and tutorial: https://git-scm.com/doc and https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/.

To learn how to add a project to Git, let's create a simple Java project in the workspace. Again as in the previous section, what code you write in this project is not important for ...