Search for “egit,” and tick the box to add the EGit download site. On the Available Software screen, type egit in the box, then click Eclipse Git Team Provider and click Next to install it.

Eclipse/EGit however wants to do the git init one level up, so instead of pushing the contents of Module1 straight into the repo, I push the directory as well, so when I clone on the remote server ...

Most notably, EGit 1.0 was released as part of the standard Eclipse environment, bringing much-needed out-of-the-box support for the popular git distributed version control system.